TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hosseini,Khaled
TI  - The kite runner
SN  - 0747566534 (2004)
AV  - PS3608.O525 K58 2003
U1  - 813/.6 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Betrayal
KW  - fast
KW  - Boys
KW  - Male friendship
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Books adapted to film
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Kites
KW  - Competitions
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Kabul (Afghanistan)
KW  - Kabul
KW  - Kābol (Afghanistan)
KW  - Kabol (Afghanistan)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Culture & diversity
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N1  - LC copy signed by author
N2  - "The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons - their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before. The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But with the devastation, Khaled Hosseini also gives us hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows for redemption."--BOOK JACKET; "Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds; Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara, member of a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When the Soviets invade and Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him."
ER  -