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Novel by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

First edition cover (US hardback)
Author	Khaled Hosseini
Cover artist	Honi Werner
Country	United States
Language	English language
Genre	Historical fiction Drama Archetype Coming-of-age Literary realism
Publisher	Riverhead Books
Publication date	May 29, 2003
Pages	371
ISBN	ane-57322-245-3
OCLC	51615359
Dewey Decimal	813/.six 21
LC Class	PS3608.O832 K58 2003

The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.^[one] Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the U.s.a., and the rise of the Taliban government.

Hosseini has commented that he considers The Kite Runner to be a father-son relationship story, emphasizing the familial aspects of the narrative, an element that he continued to use in his later on works.^[2] Themes of guilt and redemption characteristic prominently in the novel,^[3] with a pivotal scene depicting an act of sexual assault that happens against Hassan, Amir's friend, that Amir fails to prevent, which leads to the end of their friendship. The latter half of the book centers on Amir'southward attempts to atone for this transgression by rescuing Hassan'south son two decades later on.

The Kite Runner became a bestseller later being printed in paperback and was popularized in book clubs. It appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years,^[4] with over seven million copies sold in the United states of america.^[5] Reviews were generally positive, though parts of the plot drew significant controversy in Afghanistan. A number of adaptations were created post-obit publication, including a 2007 picture of the same name, several phase performances, and a graphic novel. The novel is also available in a multi-CD audiobook read past the author.

Limerick and publication [edit]

Khaled Hosseini worked as a medical internist at Kaiser Infirmary in Mountain View, California for several years before publishing The Kite Runner.^{[iii] [6] [7]} In 1999, Hosseini learned through a news report that the Taliban had banned kite flying in Afghanistan,^[8] a restriction he found peculiarly cruel.^[9] The news "struck a personal chord" for him, as he had grown up with the sport while living in Afghanistan. He was motivated to write a 25-folio curt story almost 2 boys who fly kites in Kabul.^[8] Hosseini submitted copies to Esquire and The New Yorker, both of which rejected it.^[nine] He rediscovered the manuscript in his garage in March 2001 and began to expand it to novel format at the proposition of a friend.^{[eight] [nine]} According to Hosseini, the narrative became "much darker" than he originally intended.^[8] His editor, Cindy Spiegel, "helped him rework the last third of his manuscript", something she describes as relatively common for a first novel.^[ix]

Equally with Hosseini's subsequent novels, The Kite Runner covers a multigenerational period and focuses on the relationship betwixt parents and their children.^[two] The latter was unintentional; Hosseini adult an interest in the theme while in the process of writing.^[two] He later divulged that he frequently came upward with pieces of the plot by drawing pictures of it.^[vii] For example, he did non make up one's mind to make Amir and Hassan brothers until after he had "doodled information technology".^[vii]

Similar Amir, the protagonist of the novel, Hosseini was born in Afghanistan and left the country as a youth, not returning until 2003.^[x] Thus, he was frequently questioned most the extent of the autobiographical aspects of the book.^[nine] In response, he said, "When I say some of information technology is me, and then people look unsatisfied. The parallels are pretty obvious, but ... I left a few things ambiguous because I wanted to bulldoze the book clubs crazy."^[nine] Having left the country around the fourth dimension of the Soviet invasion, he felt a sure amount of survivor'due south guilt: "Whenever I read stories nigh Afghanistan my reaction was always tinged with guilt. A lot of my babyhood friends had a very hard time. Some of our cousins died. I died in a fuel truck trying to escape Afghanistan [an incident that Hosseini fictionalizes in The Kite Runner]. Talk virtually guilt. He was one of the kids I grew upwards with flying kites. His father was shot."^{[2] [11]} Regardless, he maintains that the plot is fictional.^[8] Later, when writing his second novel, A Yard Splendid Suns (so titled Dreaming in Titanic City), Hosseini remarked that he was happy that the main characters were women as it "should put the stop to the autobiographical question one time and for all."^[9]

Riverhead Books published The Kite Runner, ordering an initial press of 50,000 copies in hardback.^{[nine] [12]} Information technology was released on May 29, 2003, and the paperback edition was released a twelvemonth later.^{[ix] [13]} Hosseini took a twelvemonth-long absenteeism from practicing medicine to promote the book, signing copies, speaking at various events, and raising funds for Afghan causes.^[9] Originally published in English, The Kite Runner was later translated into 42 languages for publication in 38 countries.^[14] In 2013, Riverhead released the tenth ceremony edition with a new gilt-rimmed cover and a foreword by Hosseini.^[15] That same year, on May 21, Khaled Hosseini published another book called And the Mountains Echoed.

Plot summary [edit]

Function I [edit]

Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in Kabul, setting of Part I

Amir, a well-to-practice Pashtun boy, and Hassan, a Hazara boy who is the son of Ali, Amir'southward father's servant, spend their days kite fighting in the hitherto peaceful city of Kabul. Flying kites was a way to escape the horrific reality the two boys were living in. Hassan is a successful "kite runner" for Amir; he knows where the kite volition land without watching it. Both boys are motherless: Amir's mother died in childbirth, while Hassan's mother, Sanaubar, just abandoned him and Ali. Amir'southward father, a wealthy merchant Amir affectionately refers to equally Baba, loves both boys. He makes a point of ownership Hassan exactly the same things equally Amir, to Amir's badgerer. He even pays to have Hassan's cleft lip surgically corrected. On the other hand, Baba is often critical of Amir, because him weak and lacking in courage, even threatening to physically punish him when he complains most Hassan. Amir finds a kinder fatherly figure in Rahim Khan, Baba's closest friend, who understands him and supports his interest in writing, whereas Baba considers that involvement to be worthy only of females. In a rare moment, when Amir is sitting on Baba's lap rather than being shooed away equally a carp, he asks why his father drinks alcohol which is forbidden by Islam. Baba tells him that the Mullahs are hypocrites and the only existent sin is theft which takes many forms.

Assef, an older boy with a sadistic gustatory modality for violence, mocks Amir for socializing with an Hazara which, co-ordinate to him, is an inferior race whose members belong only in Hazarajat. Assef is himself just half Pashtun, having a German mother and a typical blond-haired bluish-eyed German appearance. One twenty-four hour period, he prepares to attack Amir with brass knuckles, merely Hassan defends Amir, threatening to shoot out Assef'due south eye with his slingshot. Assef backs off but swears to have revenge ane mean solar day.

One triumphant 24-hour interval, Amir wins the local kite-fighting tournament and finally earns Baba's praise. Hassan runs for the last cutting kite, a great trophy, saying to Amir, "For yous, a thousand times over." However, after finding the kite, Hassan encounters Assef in an alleyway. Hassan refuses to give up the kite, and Assef severely beats him and rapes him. Amir witnesses the deed but is too scared to intervene. He knows that if he fails to bring habitation the kite, Baba would be less proud of him. He feels incredibly guilty but knows his cowardice would destroy any hopes for Baba's affections, and then he keeps tranquility most the incident. Subsequently, Amir keeps afar from Hassan; his feelings of guilt preclude him from interacting with the boy. Hassan'south mental and physical well-being begin to deteriorate.

Amir begins to believe that life would be easier if Hassan were not around, so he plants a sentry and some money under Hassan'due south mattress in the hope that Baba volition brand him leave; Hassan falsely confesses when confronted past Baba. Although Baba believes "there is no act more than wretched than stealing", he forgives him. To Baba's sorrow, Hassan and Ali exit anyway, because Hassan has told Ali what happened to him. Amir is freed of the daily reminder of his cowardice and betrayal, but he still lives in their shadow.

Office II [edit]

In 1979, v years later, the Soviet Matrimony militarily intervened in Afghanistan. Baba and Amir escape to Peshawar, Pakistan, and so to Fremont, California, where they settle in a run-down apartment. Baba begins work at a gas station. Later on graduating from loftier school, Amir takes classes at San Jose Land University to develop his writing skills. Every Sunday, Baba and Amir make extra money selling used goods at a flea market place in San Jose. In that location, Amir meets fellow refugee Soraya Taheri and her family. Baba is diagnosed with concluding cancer only is notwithstanding capable of granting Amir one last favor: he asks Soraya'south father'southward permission for Amir to marry her. He agrees and the ii ally. Presently thereafter Baba dies. Amir and Soraya settle downwardly in a happy marriage, merely to their sorrow, they learn that they cannot have children.

Amir embarks on a successful career as a novelist. Fifteen years afterward his wedding, Amir receives a call from his male parent's best friend (and his childhood male parent figure) Rahim Khan. Khan, who is dying, asks Amir to visit him in Peshawar. He enigmatically tells Amir, "There is a way to be good again."

Part 3 [edit]

From Rahim Khan, Amir learns that Hassan and Ali are both dead. Ali was killed by a land mine. Hassan and his wife were killed later on Hassan refused to allow the Taliban to confiscate Baba and Amir'due south house in Kabul. Rahim Khan further reveals that Ali was sterile and was not Hassan'due south biological father. Hassan was really the son of Sanaubar and Baba, making him Amir's half brother. Finally, Khan tells Amir that the reason he has called Amir to Pakistan is to enquire him to rescue Hassan's son, Sohrab, from an orphanage in Kabul.

Amir searches for Sohrab, accompanied past Farid, an Afghan taxi driver and veteran of the war with the Soviets. They learn that a Taliban official comes to the orphanage often, brings cash, and unremarkably takes a girl away with him. Occasionally he chooses a male child, recently Sohrab. The orphanage director tells Amir how to find the official, and Farid secures an engagement at his home by challenge to have "personal business" with him.

Amir meets the Taliban leader, who reveals himself equally Assef. Sohrab is being kept at Assef'due south house as a dancing boy. Assef agrees to relinquish him if Amir tin shell him in a fight. Assef then badly beats Amir, breaking several basic, until Sohrab uses a slingshot to fire a brass ball into Assef's left eye. Sohrab helps Amir out of the business firm, where he passes out and wakes up in a hospital.

Amir tells Sohrab of his plans to take him back to America and possibly adopt him. Nonetheless, American government demand bear witness of Sohrab's orphan status. Amir tells Sohrab that he may have to become back to an orphanage for a lilliputian while every bit they have encountered a problem in the adoption process, and Sohrab, terrified about returning to an orphanage, attempts suicide. Amir eventually manages to take him back to the United States. After his adoption, Sohrab refuses to interact with Amir or Soraya until Amir reminisces virtually Hassan and kites and shows off some of Hassan'south tricks. In the end, Sohrab only gives a lopsided smile, but Amir takes it with all his middle as he runs the kite for Sohrab, saying, "For you, a 1000 times over."

Characters [edit]

Protagonist [edit]

• Amir (named Amir Qadiri in 2007 film adaptation, surname is not given in book) is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. Khaled Hosseini best-selling that the character is "an unlikable coward who failed to come up to the assistance of his best friend" for much of the elapsing of the story; consequently, Hosseini chose to create sympathy for Amir through circumstances rather than the personality he was given until the last third of the book.^[16] Born into a Pashtun family in 1963, his female parent died while giving birth to him. As a kid, he enjoys storytelling and is encouraged by Rahim Khan to become a well-known writer. At historic period 18, he and his male parent flee to America following the Soviet Military invasion of Afghanistan, where he pursues his dream of being a author.

Main Characters [edit]

• Hassan is Amir'southward closest childhood friend. He is described as having a cathay doll face, green eyes, and a harelip. Hosseini regards him equally a flat character in terms of development; he is "a lovely guy and yous root for him and you love him merely he's not complicated".^[17]
• Baba is Amir's father and a wealthy businessman who aids the community by establishing businesses for others and building a new orphanage. He is the biological father of Hassan, a fact he hides from both of his children, and seems to favor him over Amir. Baba does non endorse the extremist religious views of the clerics at Amir's school. Later fleeing to America, he works at a gas station. He dies from cancer in 1987, shortly later Amir and Soraya's wedding.
• Ali is Baba'southward servant, a Hazara believed to be Hassan's father. He was adopted equally a child by Baba's begetter subsequently his parents were killed by a drunk driver. Before the events of the novel, Ali had been struck with polio, rendering his correct leg useless. Considering of this, Ali is constantly tormented by children in the town. He is later killed by a state mine in Hazarajat.
• Rahim Khan is Baba's loyal friend and business partner.
• Soraya is a young Afghan woman whom Amir meets and marries in the The states. Hosseini originally scripted the graphic symbol as an American woman, merely he later agreed to rewrite her as an Afghan immigrant after his editor did non find her groundwork conceivable for her office in the story.^[18] The change resulted in an extensive revision of Part 3.^[xviii] In the final draft, Soraya lives with her parents, Afghan general Taheri and his wife, and wants to go an English language teacher. Before meeting Amir, she ran away with an Afghan fellow in Virginia, which, according to Afghan culture, fabricated her unsuitable for marriage. Because Amir is unwilling to face up his own past actions, he admires Soraya for her courage in admitting to, and moving beyond, her past mistakes.
• Sohrab is the son of Hassan, who is captured by Assef after Hassan and his wife are killed. Sohrab is eventually rescued by Amir and taken to live in America as Amir and Soraya's adopted son

Antagonists [edit]

• Assef is the chief antagonist of the novel. He is the son of a Pashtun father and a German female parent, and believes that Pashtuns are superior to Hazaras, although he himself is not a full Pashtun. Equally a teenager, he is a neighborhood neat and is enamored with Hitler and Nazism. He is described equally a "sociopath" by Amir. He rapes Hassan to get revenge on Amir. As an developed, he joins the Taliban and sexually abuses Hassan's son, Sohrab and other children of Sohrab's orphanage.

Secondary Characters [edit]

• Sanaubar is Ali'due south wife and the mother of Hassan. Shortly afterward Hassan's birth, she runs away from home and joins a grouping of traveling dancers. She subsequently returns to Hassan in his adulthood. To make up for her neglect, she provides a grandmother figure for Sohrab, Hassan's son.
• Farid is a taxi driver who is initially abrasive toward Amir, but later befriends him. 2 of Farid's vii children were killed past a land mine, a disaster which mutilated 3 fingers on his left mitt and likewise took some of his toes. Afterwards spending a night with Farid's blood brother's impoverished family, Amir hides a bundle of coin under the mattress to help them.
• General Taheri is the male parent of Soraya, a sometime war machine general in the Afghan Army. He has a very traditionalistic view on life, despite existence well pregnant, and is obsessed with honor and society's impression on him and his family unit, which causes small conflicts between him and Soraya, and later, to some extent Amir. Even so these are very minor conflicts, and all is fabricated up later on.
• Jamila Taheri Soraya's female parent, who dotes on Amir after Amir marries Soraya

Themes [edit]

Because its themes of friendship, betrayal, guilt, redemption and the uneasy love betwixt fathers and sons are universal, and non specifically Afghan, the book has been able to achieve across cultural, racial, religious and gender gaps to resonate with readers of varying backgrounds.

—Khaled Hosseini, 2005^[3]

Khaled Hosseini identifies a number of themes that appear in The Kite Runner, merely reviewers have focused on guilt and redemption.^{[ix] [11] [nineteen]} As a child, Amir fails to save Hassan in an act of cowardice and afterward suffers from an all-consuming guilt. Even after leaving the country, moving to America, marrying, and becoming a successful writer, he is unable to forget the incident. Hassan is "the all-sacrificing Christ-figure, the one who, even in death, calls Amir to redemption".^[19] Following Hassan's death at the hands of the Taliban, Amir begins to redeem himself through the rescue of Hassan's son, Sohrab.^[20] Hosseini draws parallels during the search for Sohrab to create an impression of poetic justice; for case, Amir sustains a split up lip later beingness severely beaten, similar to Hassan's harelip.^[20] Despite this, some critics questioned whether the protagonist had fully redeemed himself.^[21]

Amir's motivation for the childhood betrayal is rooted in his insecurities regarding his human relationship with his father.^[22] The human relationship between parents and their children features prominently in the novel, and in an interview, Hosseini elaborated:

Both [The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] are multigenerational, and so the relationship betwixt parent and child, with all of its manifest complexities and contradictions, is a prominent theme. I did not intend this, but I am keenly interested, it appears, in the way parents and children love, disappoint, and in the end award each other. In one way, the two novels are corollaries: The Kite Runner was a father-son story, and A Thousand Splendid Suns can be seen as a mother-daughter story.^[2]

When adapting The Kite Runner for the theatre, Director Eric Rose stated that he was fatigued into the narrative by the "themes of betraying your best friend for the honey of your male parent", which he compared to Shakespearean literature.^[23] Throughout the story, Amir craves his father's affection;^[22] his father, in plough, loves Amir simply favors Hassan,^[20] going as far equally to pay for plastic surgery to repair the latter'due south cleft lip.^[24]

Critical reception [edit]

Starting time Lady Laura Bush with Khaled Hosseini (first and second to the left); Bush praised The Kite Runner as "really slap-up".^[25]

In the outset two years following its publication, over 70,000 hardback copies of The Kite Runner were sold along with 1,250,000 paperback copies.^[3] Though the volume sold well in hardback, "Kite Runner'due south popularity didn't really begin to soar until [2004] when the paperback edition came out, which is when book clubs began picking it upwards."^[nine] It started appearing on best seller lists in September 2004 and became a New York Times bestseller in March 2005,^[three] maintaining its place on the list for two years.^[iv] By the publication of Khaled Hosseini's tertiary novel in 2013, over 7 million copies had been sold in the United States.^[five] The volume received the S African Boeke Prize in 2004. It was voted the Reading Group Book of the Yr for 2006 and 2007 and headed a list of 60 titles submitted past entrants to the Penguin/Orange Reading Grouping prize (UK).^{[26] [27]}

Critically, the volume was well-received, albeit controversial. Erika Milvy from Salon praised it as "beautifully written, startling and middle wrenching".^[28] Tony Sims from Wired Magazine wrote that the book "reveals the beauty and agony of a tormented nation every bit it tells the story of an improbable friendship betwixt two boys from reverse ends of society, and of the troubled but enduring relationship between a begetter and a son".^[29] Amelia Hill of The Observer opined, "The Kite Runner is the shattering first novel by Khaled Hosseini" that "is simultaneously devastating and inspiring."^[22] A similarly favourable review was printed in Publishers Weekly.^[13] Marketing manager Melissa Mytinger remarked, "It's simply an excellent story. Much of it based in a globe we don't know, a earth nosotros're barely beginning to know. Well-written, published at the 'right fourth dimension' by an author who is both charming and thoughtful in his personal appearances for the book."^[3] Indian-American actor Aasif Mandvi agreed that the book was "amazing storytelling. ... Information technology's about homo beings. Information technology's about redemption, and redemption is a powerful theme."^[9] Get-go Lady Laura Bush commended the story as "really corking".^[25] Said Tayeb Jawad, the 19th Afghan ambassador to the Usa, publicly endorsed The Kite Runner, proverb that the book would help the American public to better sympathize Afghan club and culture.^[9]

Edward Hower from The New York Times analyzed the portrayal of Afghanistan before and after the Taliban:

Hosseini's depiction of pre-revolutionary Afghanistan is rich in warmth and humour but also tense with the friction between the nation's different indigenous groups. Amir'due south father, or Baba, personifies all that is reckless, courageous and arrogant in his dominant Pashtun tribe ... The novel'south canvas turns nighttime when Hosseini describes the suffering of his country under the tyranny of the Taliban, whom Amir encounters when he finally returns home, hoping to help Hassan and his family. The terminal third of the book is full of haunting images: a man, drastic to feed his children, trying to sell his bogus leg in the market place; an cheating couple stoned to decease in a stadium during the halftime of a football match; a rouged young male child forced into prostitution, dancing the sort of steps one time performed by an organ grinder's monkey.^[24]

Meghan O'Rouke, Slate Magazine's culture critic and informational editor, ultimately found The Kite Runner mediocre, writing that "this is a novel simultaneously striving to evangelize a large-scale informative portrait and to phase a small-calibration redemptive drama, simply its therapeutic allegory of recovery tin just undermine its realist ambitions. People experience their lives confronting the backdrop of their culture, and while Hosseini wisely steers clear of merely exoticizing Transitional islamic state of afghanistan as a monolithically foreign place, he does so much work to make his novel emotionally accessible to the American reader that there is nigh no room, in the terminate, for u.s. to consider for long what might differentiate Afghans and Americans."^[25] Sarah Smith from The Guardian thought the novel started out well but began to falter towards the finish. She felt that Hosseini was too focused on fully redeeming the protagonist in Office 3 and in doing so created too many unrealistic coincidences that allowed Amir the opportunity to undo his past wrongs.^[20]

Controversies [edit]

The American Library Clan reported that The Kite Runner was i of its most-challenged books of 2008, with multiple attempts to remove it from libraries due to its "offensive language, sexually explicit [content], and unsuit[ability for] age group."^[xxx] Afghan American readers were particularly disquisitional towards the depiction of Pashtuns as oppressors and Hazaras as the oppressed.^[11] Hosseini responded in an interview, "They never say I am speaking about things that are untrue. Their beefiness is, 'Why do you have to talk almost these things and embarrass us? Don't you lot honey your country?'"^[xi] Afghan-Australian announcer Emran Feroz, however, criticized the novel for oversimplifying ethnic relations in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan and portraying Pashtuns in general in an overly negative light. Feroz further expressed business concern that works by Hosseini, who was raised in a culturally Tajik context rather than Pashtun, would foreclose western readers from developing a more than nuanced view of Afghanistan.^[31]

The motion picture generated more controversy through the xxx-second rape scene, with threats made against the child actors, who originated from Afghanistan.^[28] Zekeria Ebrahimi, the 12-year-old actor who portrayed Amir, had to be removed from school subsequently his Hazara classmates threatened to kill him,^[32] and Paramount Pictures was eventually forced to relocate iii of the children to the United Arab Emirates.^[28] Afghanistan'due south Ministry of Civilization banned the flick from distribution in cinemas or DVD stores, citing the possibility that the film's ethnically charged rape scene could incite racial violence within Transitional islamic state of afghanistan.^[33]

Adaptations [edit]

Film [edit]

Four years afterwards its publication, The Kite Runner was adapted as a motion picture starring Khalid Abdalla as Amir, Homayoun Ershadi as Baba, and Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada as Hassan. It was initially scheduled to premiere in November 2007, but the release date was pushed back six weeks to evacuate the Afghan child stars from the country afterwards they received death threats.^[34] Directed by Marc Forster and with a screenplay past David Benioff, the motion-picture show won numerous awards and was nominated for an Academy Laurels, the BAFTA Film Laurels, and the Critics Choice Accolade in 2008.^[35] While reviews were more often than not positive, with Amusement Weekly deeming the final product "pretty proficient",^[36] the delineation of indigenous tensions and the controversial rape scene drew outrage in Afghanistan.^[34] Hangama Anwari, the child rights commissioner for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, commented, "They should not play around with the lives and security of people. The Hazara people volition take it every bit an insult."^[34]

Hosseini was surprised past the extent of the controversy caused by the rape scene and said that Afghan actors would not have been cast had studios known that their lives would be threatened.^[28] He believed that the scene was necessary to "maintain the integrity" of the story, as a concrete assault past itself would not have afflicted the audience as much.^[28]

Other [edit]

The novel was kickoff adapted to the stage in March 2007 by Bay Area playwright Matthew Spangler where it was performed at San Jose State Academy.^[37] Two years later, David Ira Goldstein, artistic director of Arizona Theater Company, organized for it to exist performed at San Jose Repertory Theatre. The play was produced at Arizona Theatre Company in 2009, Actor'southward Theatre of Louisville and Cleveland Play House in 2010, and The New Repertory Theatre of Watertown, Massachusetts in 2012. The theatre adaption premiered in Canada every bit a co-product between Theatre Calgary and the Citadel Theatre in Jan 2013. In April 2013, the play premiered in Europe at the Nottingham Playhouse, with Ben Turner acting in the pb office.^[38]

Hosseini was approached by Piemme, his Italian publisher, virtually adapting The Kite Runner to a graphic novel in 2011. Having been "a fan of comic books since childhood", he was open to the idea, believing that The Kite Runner was a practiced candidate to be presented in a visual format.^[29] Fabio Celoni provided the illustrations for the projection and regularly updated Hosseini on his progress before its release in September of that year.^[29] The latter was pleased with the final product and said, "I believe Fabio Celoni'southward work vividly brings to life not merely the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but as well the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir'south journeying."^[29]

Run into also [edit]

• 16 Days in Afghanistan listed every bit a reference motion picture in Kite Runner's Written report guide^[39]
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini's second novel)

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External links [edit]

• Official website of author Khaled Hosseini
• Khaled Hosseini discusses The Kite Runner on the BBC Earth Book Society
• Article on the novel at Let's Talk near Bollywood
• Excerpts: Excerpt at ereader.com Excerpt at litstudies.org Excerpt at today.com
• Book Drum illustrated profile of The Kite Runner Archived 2017-09-05 at the Wayback Machine

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner

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