The Kite Runner:
Written by: Khaled Hosseini
Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini
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Time: 12 Hours 3 Minutes
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to
the present, The Kite Runner is the
unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys
growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet
nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a
prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is
a Hazara -- a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their
fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his
father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has
escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
The Kite Runner is a novel about
friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds
between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons -- their love,
their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that
has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes
the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But
through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel's faith
in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities
he shows us for redemption.