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.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526604743Number of pages: 368Weight: 257 gDimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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A gripping read and a haunting story of love,loss and betrayal. Guaranteed to move even the hardest heartShattering...devastating and inspiringHosseini is a truly gifted teller of tales...he's not afraid to pull every string in your heart to make it singRings true with tenderness and truthA 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 hopeStunning and heartbreaking in its quiet intensityThis is one of those unforgettable stories that stay with you for years. All the great themes of literature and of life are the fabric of this extraordinary novel: love,honour,guilt,fear,redemption...It is so powerful that for a long time after,everything I read seemed blandThe novel that made Afghanistan the talking-point of every book group
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini established his career with the phenomenally successful debut novel The Kite Runner. This,along with the novels A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed have been published in over 70 countries and sold over 40 million copies worldwide. In 2018 Hosseini published Sea Prayer,a story inspired by the suffering of those escaping the Syrian conflict.
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