The Kite Runner

The unforgettable,heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servantThe Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of readingthe price of betrayaland the possibility of redemptionand it is also about the power of fathers over sonsΓÇötheir lovetheir sacrificestheir lies. The first Afghan novel to be written in EnglishThe Kite Runner tells a sweeping story of familyloveand friendship against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction beforebringing to mind the large canvases of the Russian writers of the nineteenth century. But just as it is old-fashioned in its narrationit is contemporary in its subject-the devastating history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years. As emotionally gripping as it is tenderThe Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful debut.