The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
A betrayal. Thirty years of Afghan history. Redemption.
you want to understand Afghanistan as a place people loved before the world decided it was only a war
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Amir and Hassan, two boys in Kabul in the 1970s, and the act of cowardice that haunts Amir for the next thirty years. Hosseini takes you from the kite tournaments of pre-Soviet Kabul through the Taliban's arrival and into the diaspora in California. Afghanistan as a place of extraordinary beauty and ordinary human life — before it became a symbol, before it became a debate. The book that made more Americans see Afghan people as people than any amount of journalism.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Afghanistan • Central Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Afghan author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
