TY - BOOK AU - Hosseini,Khaled TI - The Kite Runner SN - 1594480001 AV - PS 3608 .O832 .K649 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead Books KW - Kites KW - Competitions KW - Afghanistan KW - Fiction KW - Teenage boys KW - Male friendship KW - Social classes KW - Betrayal KW - Boys KW - Kabul (Afghanistan) KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century N2 - 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 ER -