The Kite Runner
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The "kite runner" of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. Narrated by Amir as a 40-year-old novelist living in California,
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Manufacturer: Doubleday Canada
Release date: 3 June 2003
ISBN-10 : 0385660065 | ISBN-13: 9780385660068
Release date: 3 June 2003
ISBN-10 : 0385660065 | ISBN-13: 9780385660068
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