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Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon. - Amazon.com
Riverhead
April 2004
384 pages
ISBN: 1594480001
EAN: 9781594480003
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Contemporary
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely
friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his
father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully
crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of
being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the
price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and
it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love,
their sacrifices, their lies. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The
Kite Runner tells a sweeping story of family, love, and
friendship against a backdrop of history that has not been
told in fiction before, bringing to mind the large canvases
of the Russian writers of the nineteenth century. But just
as it is old-fashioned in its narration, it is contemporary
in its subject-the devastating history of Afghanistan over
the last thirty years. As emotionally gripping as it is
tender, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful
debut.
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