The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers all over the world.

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 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 divide Afghanistan further. An unspeakable assault
on Hassan by a gang of local boys tears the friends apart; and 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 brother.

Compelling, heartrending and etched with
details of a history never before told in fiction, The Kite Runner is a story of
the ways in which we're damned by our moral failures, and of the extravagant cost
of redemption.