The Kite Runner
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
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Readers say *The Kite Runner* is a mesmerizing, emotionally intense novel exploring friendship, guilt, betrayal, and redemption amid Afghanistan’s tur...
Story set in recent Afghanistan and American history as told through the story of two boys, one Shia, one Sh'ite, who run Kites in pre-Taliban pre-Russian Afghanistan. Until something happens, and they both have to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives[return][return]Some of the scenes I read in this I remember seeing something similar on the internet, certainly footage from the football stadium that I found difficult to watch.