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Author Hosseini, Khaled, author

Title The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini
Published London : Bloomsbury, 2003
London, UK : Bloomsbury, 2004
©2003

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 W'BOOL  810.6 H829 A6/K  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 324 pages ; 20 cm
Summary In The Kite Runner, Amir and Hassan grow up together in Afghanistan like brothers, although they couldn't be more different. Amir is the son of a wealthy businessman, a Sunni Muslim, a Pashtun, and he's educated and reads voraciously. Hassan's father is a servant to Amir's father, and Hassan is a Sh'ia Muslim, a Hazara, he's illiterate, and he has a harelip. But neither boy has a mother and they spend their boyhoods roaming the streets of Kabul together. Amir, though, continually uses his superior position to taunt or abuse Hassan, and one day hides in fear as Hassan is beaten mercilessly by bullies. The Soviet invasion of Aghanistan sends Amir's family to the United States, but he returns there as an adult during the Taliban rule to atone for his sins to Hassan
Notes Originally published: 2003
Subject Interpersonal relations.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Betrayal -- Fiction.
Kites -- Competitions -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Teenage boys -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Parent and child -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Kabul (Afghanistan) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80056678 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Kabul (Afghanistan) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80056678
Afghanistan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063030 -- Social conditions -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008860 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Afghanistan -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114093
Genre/Form Culture & diversity
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Recreational reading
LC no. 2004401570
ISBN 0747566534
9780747566533
0747566526 (cased)
9780747566526 (cased)
0747566992 (export pbk)
9780747566991 (export pbk)