TY - BOOK AU - Hosseini,Khaled TI - The Kite Runner SN - 1585473634 U1 - F HOS 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Thorndike, Me. PB - Center Point KW - Male friendship KW - Fiction KW - Social classes KW - Betrayal KW - Boys KW - Kabul (Afghanistan) KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Historical / General KW - FICTION / Classics KW - Large type books N2 - 1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption ER -