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The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner follows the maturation of Amir, a male from Afghanistan who needs to find his way in the world as he realizes that his own belief system is not that of his dominant culture. As an adult, Amir also needs a way to atone for a childhood indiscretion, when an act of cowardice costs him more than just a friendship. Set in Afghanistan and the United States, The Kite Runner is a bildungsroman that illustrates the similarities as well as the differences between the two countries and the two vastly different cultures. It is the story of both fathers and sons and friends and brothers, and it is a novel about right and wrong and the nature of evil. Published in 2003 to great critical and popular acclaim, The Kite Runner is considered a contemporary classic.

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