Kite Runner

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This is the remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini. Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba one of the richest & most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite & bring it home triumphantly to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen & he promises to help him
- for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim & this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted & jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives & define their futures. When Russia invades Afghanistan Amir & Baba escape to San Francisco where Baba fades but Amir feels that at last he can succeed. But he is still haunted by guilt & he knows that his past will not let him go. The destructive rule of the Northern Alliance followed by the even more terrifying & oppressive Taliban have destroyed the country that Amir knows but the hearts of men cannot be suppressed. Amir must return to Afghanistan to search for salvation & perhaps his life-altering mistakes can be redeemed. This is a moving courageous story of love loyalty secrets & vengeance & of a country & a boy whose footsteps cannot be retraced as the events & decisions resonate & alter them for ever.