Kite Runner

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By Khaled Hosseini

Kabul in the 1970s: Amir is the son of a wealthy man, Hassan the son of his father’s servant, and they are inseparable until the winter of a kite-fighting tournament, when Amir witnesses something he does not stop and does not tell.

Years later, settled in California and married, he is called back to a country that has been taken apart by war, and offered what the caller describes as a way to be good again. A novel about fathers and sons, about betrayal, and about what it takes to make amends.

First published 2003