The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini's stunning debut novel The Kite Runner follows a young boy, Amir, as he faces the challenges that confront him on the path to manhood, testing friendships, finding love, cheating death, accepting faults, and gaining understanding. Khaled Hosseini, born in 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan was inspired by his own life growing in such a hostile environment. Being the oldest of five children he witnessed a bloody communist coup and the Soviet invasion. After being granted political asylum in 1980 to the United States, Khaled and his family moved to San Jose, California. Shortly after he wed, had children and jump started a career as a physician Khaled published his first novel The Kite Runner.

Living in Afghanistan in the 1960s, Amir enjoys a life of privilege that is shaped by his brotherly friendship with Hassan, his servant's son. Amir lives in constant want of his father's attention, feeling that he is a failure in his father's eyes. Hassan, on the other hand, seems to be able to do no wrong. Their friendship is a complex tapestry of love, loss, privilege, and shame. Striving to be the son his father always wanted, Amir takes on the weight of living up to unrealistic expectations and places the fate