![]() ![]() ![]() After a horrific incident their friendship falls apart and soon after Amir and his father are forced to flee to the United States after the fall of Afghanistan’s monarchy through the Soviet military. Both boys grow up in a somewhat turbulent Afghanistan and spend their days running kites and telling each other stories. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of two young boys Amir, a Pashtun Muslim, and his best friend Hassan, a Hazara servant, in Kabul, Afghanistan. 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.īut in 1975, on the day of Kabul’s annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. Page Length: 372 pages (paperback edition) “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini (2004) Book Review: “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini ![]()
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