The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

great novel...a movie is also based on this book...

The Kite Runner is a novel by the author Khaled Hosseini, who is also the author of #2 Bestseller, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Published in 2003 by Bloomsbury publishing PLC, it is Hosseini's first novel, and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007.

The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who betrayed his best friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant, and lives in regret. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.

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