2008, ISBN: 1435298853

[SR: 2691259], Library Binding, [EAN: 9781435298859], Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Book, [PU: Paw Prints 2008-06-05], 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, The Kite Runner o… Meer...

[SR: 2691259], Library Binding, [EAN: 9781435298859], Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Book, [PU: Paw Prints 2008-06-05], 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca, 590756, Contemporary Fiction, 62, Fiction, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

2008, ISBN: 1435298853

I sat on a bench near a willow tree and watched a pair of kites soaring in the sky. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an afterthought, ‘There is … Meer...

I sat on a bench near a willow tree and watched a pair of kites soaring in the sky. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an afterthought, ‘There is a way to be good again.’"Now in paperback, one of the year’s international literary sensations -- a shattering story of betrayal and redemption set in war-torn Afghanistan.Amir and Hassan are childhood friends in the alleys and orchards of Kabul in the sunny days before the invasion of the Soviet army and Afghanistan’s decent into fanaticism. Both motherless, they grow up as close as brothers, but their fates, they know, are to be different. Amir’s father is a wealthy merchant; Hassan’s father is his manservant. Amir belongs to the ruling caste of Pashtuns, Hassan to the despised Hazaras.This fragile idyll is broken by the mounting ethnic, religious, and political tensions that begin to tear Afghanistan apart. An unspeakable assault on Hassan by a gang of local boys tears the friends apart; Amir has witnessed his friend’s torment, but is too afraid to intercede. Plunged into self-loathing, Amir conspires to have Hassan and his father turned out of the household.When the Soviets invade Afghanistan, Amir and his father flee to San Francisco, leaving Hassan and his father to a pitiless fate. Only years later will Amir have an opportunity to redeem himself by returning to Afghanistan to begin to repay the debt long owed to the man who should have been his b asian american,children's,children's books,contemporary,education and reference,fiction,genre fiction,historical,literary,literature and fiction Children's Books, Paw Prints 2008-06-05<

2008, ISBN: 1435298853

[SR: 2432156], Library Binding, [EAN: 9781435298859], Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Book, [PU: Paw Prints 2008-06-05], 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, 590756, Contempor… Meer...

[SR: 2432156], Library Binding, [EAN: 9781435298859], Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Book, [PU: Paw Prints 2008-06-05], 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, 590756, Contemporary Fiction, 62, Fiction, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

2008, ISBN: 1435298853

[SR: 2223298], Library Binding, [EAN: 9781435298859], Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Book, [PU: Paw Prints 2008-06-05], 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, 590756, Contempor… Meer...

[SR: 2223298], Library Binding, [EAN: 9781435298859], Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, Book, [PU: Paw Prints 2008-06-05], 2008-06-05, Paw Prints 2008-06-05, 590756, Contemporary Fiction, 62, Fiction, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<