by Khaled Hosseini · Editora Nova Fronteira · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788520917671
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«O Caçador de Pipas» is the novel by Khaled Hosseini, published by Editora Nova Fronteira in paperback (365 pages, in Brazilian Portuguese).
Amir, from a well-off family, and Hassan, the servant's son, grow up together in 1970s Kabul and share stories and a passion for kites. An act of cowardice during a kite tournament separates them. As an adult and emigrant in the United States, Amir returns to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to confront his past.
The original title of the work is The Kite Runner; the Brazilian Portuguese edition was published in 2005. The back cover of this edition includes praise from Isabel Allende and Joyce Carol Oates.
For readers of literary fiction and historical novels, with a story about friendship, guilt and redemption in Afghanistan.
Khaled Hosseini or Khalid Husseini is an Afghan and American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Afghan as the protagonist. Hosseini's novels have spread awareness about Afghanistan's people and culture.
