Author: Hosseini, Khaled
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 23 August 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 368 pages
129 x 197 x 23 | 254g
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘Devastating’ Daily Telegraph‘Heartbreaking’ The Times‘Unforgettable’ Isabel Allende‘Haunting’ IndependentAfghanistan, 1975: 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 will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.