The Kite Runner

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A STORY OF FATHERS AND SONS, FRIENDSHIP AND BETRAYAL, AND THE CASUALTIES OF FATE Read by over eight million people, this astonishing international bestseller won the Penguin/Orange Reader's Group Prize in 2006, 2007 and 2008. 1970s Afghanistan: 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 an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.