Kite Runner
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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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Khaled Hosseini
EAN: 9781526604743
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 257 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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GENRE: FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / General
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Kabul, San Jose, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Migration, immigration and emigration
A gripping read and a haunting story of love, loss and betrayal. Guaranteed to move even the hardest heart, Shattering … devastating and inspiring, Hosseini is a truly gifted teller of tales … he’s not afraid to pull every string in your heart to make it sing, Rings true with tenderness and truth, A devastating, masterful and painfully honest story of a life crippled by an act of childhood and cowardice and cruelty … It speaks the harrowing truth about the power of evil, personal and political, and intoxicates, like a high-flying kite, with the power of hope
Khaled Hosseini is the author of The Kite Runner, which was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. And the Mountains Echoed was chosen for the Richard & Judy Summer Book Club in 2014, and readers voted it as their favourite of all the titles. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. Sea Prayer, his fourth book, was inspired by Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015. Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California. khaledhosseini.com @khaledhosseini
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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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Khaled Hosseini
EAN: 9781526604743
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 257 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / General
WIDTH: 129 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Kabul, San Jose, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Migration, immigration and emigration
Khaled Hosseini is the author of The Kite Runner, which was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. And the Mountains Echoed was chosen for the Richard & Judy Summer Book Club in 2014, and readers voted it as their favourite of all the titles. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. Sea Prayer, his fourth book, was inspired by Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015. Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California. khaledhosseini.com @khaledhosseini
