This book is for anyone who wants to understand a piece of history and how that history lingers in the lives of people who ...

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and is of Afghan American ... gaining widespread critical acclaim for his novel The Kite Runner, published in 2003. The Kite Runner is a deeply ...

You must be threatening national security or the sexuality of young children, because you are a bad little book who just got ...

Life is a lot more exciting when you're 100 pages deep in a book you're hooked on. Whether it's a gritty crime novel, a ...

The man at the soccer game speaks in Pashto, Afghanistan's other main language. Author Khaled Hosseini describes the filming (in Kashgar, China) of the Kabul kite tournament ... the documentary "Words ...

He receives a call from his uncle Rahim Khan who urges him to travel to Afghanistan and rescue the ... they compete as a team in kite fighting competitions, Hassan who is a natural runner in knowing ...

Growing up, Ilham Uddin Hussaini used to chase kites with his friends in Afghanistan to escape the realities of a war he didn't really understand. Today, he's chasing a long-held dream of owning a ...

Few novels leave an imprint on our minds quite like The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini’s powerful story of friendship and redemption, set against the backdrop of Afghanistan’s turbulent past ...

These words from Khaled Hosseini’s acclaimed novel The Kite Runner became symbolic of the ... of the Taliban regime (dominated by Sunnis) in Afghanistan led to the persecution of the Hazara ...