by Khaled Hosseini · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781594631931
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«The Kite Runner» is the historical fiction novel by Khaled Hosseini, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Set in Afghanistan, it tells the friendship between Amir, a rich boy from Kabul, and Hassan, the son of his father's servant. A kite tournament and a traumatic event mark their lives. After the Soviet invasion, Amir goes into exile in the United States, but years later he returns to Afghanistan to face his past and seek redemption.
The novel was originally published in 2003; this tenth anniversary edition includes an author's foreword.
Historical and contemporary fiction novel, suitable for book clubs and for readers interested in twentieth-century Afghan society.
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.
