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The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner
is the first
novel
by
Afghan-American
author
Khaled Hosseini
. Published in 2003 by
Riverhead Books
, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the
Wazir Akbar Khan
district of
Kabul
, whose closest friend is Hassan, his father's young
Hazara
servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of
Afghanistan's monarchy
through the
Soviet military intervention
, the exodus of
refugees
to
Pakistan
and the United States, and the rise of the
Taliban
regime.
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