TY - BOOK AU - TI - The kite runner SN - 978-1-59448-000-3 U1 - 813'.6 H7949k 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York, U.S.A. PB - Riverhead Books KW - The kite runner KW - Afghanistan In literature KW - Male friendship-- Fiction KW - Social classes-- FIction KW - Afghanistan-- Fiction KW - Betrayal-- Fiction KW - Boys-- Fiction N1 - 1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that shatters their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realizes that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption ER -