TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hosseini,Khaled
TI  - The kite runner
SN  - 9781594483011 (pbk.)
U1  - 813.6 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Kites
KW  - Competitions
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Male friendship
KW  - Betrayal
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Boys
N2  - This powerful first novel...tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini's privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces. But political events, even as dramatic as the ones that are presented in The Kite Runner, are only a part of this story. In the Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini gives us a vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence - forces that continue to threaten them even today
ER  -