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The Kite Runner Abridged Binding: CD/Spoken Word Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publish Date: 2013/05/21 Language: ENGLISH Dimensions: 5.75 x 5.00 x 1.00 Weight: 0.50 ISBN-13: 9781442364226 Book Type: FICTION

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• The Kite Runner Abridged available on June 27 2018 from Newegg for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">24.48
  
• The Kite Runner available on June 12 2017 from Amazon for 7.50
  
• The Kite Runner available on March 21 2017 from Indigo for 16.99
  
• Simon & Schuster 9781442364226 available on December 05 2016 from NeweggBusiness for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">27.4
  
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Used Book in Good Condition The #1 National Bestseller Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara -- a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons -- their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows us for redemption. In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try. The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.") Some of the plot's turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon. --Gisele Toueg

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References

^ Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2013, CD, Abridged) ISBN 9781442364226 (revised Mar 2015)
^ The Kite Runner Abridged, Simon & Schuster. Newegg. ISBN 9781442364226 (revised Jun 2018)
^ Khaled Hosseini (2013). The Kite Runner, Simon & Schuster Audio. Amazon. ISBN 9781442364226 (revised Jun 2017)
^ The Kite Runner Indigo. ISBN 9781442364226 (revised Mar 2017)
^ Simon & Schuster 9781442364226, Simon & Schuster. NeweggBusiness. ISBN 9781442364226 (revised Dec 2016)