The Kite Runner

Trade Paperback

English language

Published May 23, 2004 by Riverhead Books.

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Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.

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Review of 'The Kite Runner.' on 'Goodreads'

It was an okay book, and read pretty well while it was in Afghanistan. Once the protagonist got to America, it got all whiny and spineless. I thought the "displaced Persian" thing was much better done in "House of Sand and Fog".

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Subjects

  • Male friendship
  • Fiction
  • Betrayal
  • Boys
  • Social classes