Product Details
Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 3 months ago
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - May 2004
Seller Description
1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
Overview
The Kite Runner: Moving portrait of modern Afghanistan
ISBN: 9781594480003
Publisher Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of Amir, a wealthy Afghanistani youth, and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of the nation's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
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