The Kite Runner
Hosseini, Khaled,
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini. - First Riverhead trade paperback edition. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2004. - x, 371 pages ; 21 cm.
This novel is an epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, it is set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons, their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
1594480001
Kites--Competitions--Afghanistan--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Afghanistan--Fiction.
Male friendship--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Betrayal--Fiction.
Boys--Fiction.
Kabul (Afghanistan)--Fiction.
Afghanistan--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
Afghanistan--Fiction.
PS 3608 .O832 / .K649 2004
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini. - First Riverhead trade paperback edition. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2004. - x, 371 pages ; 21 cm.
This novel is an epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, it is set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons, their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
1594480001
Kites--Competitions--Afghanistan--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Afghanistan--Fiction.
Male friendship--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Betrayal--Fiction.
Boys--Fiction.
Kabul (Afghanistan)--Fiction.
Afghanistan--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
Afghanistan--Fiction.
PS 3608 .O832 / .K649 2004
