A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption 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