The Kite Runner
Edition: 1st Riverhead Essential Edition (4)
Series: Riverhead Essential Editions
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2005-09
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781594481772
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: World Contemporary Fiction (General) +; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literary; Fiction / General; General
First sentence: I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.
Description: Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarcy through the horrific invasion of the Taliban, The Kite Runner is the heartbreaking story of the unlikely and inseperable friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, both of whom are caought in the tragic sweep of history. It isa also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, the possibility of redemption, and the influence of fathers over sons, of a country ofver men - and the sacrifices, loyalty and lies that bind them.

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