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100 _aKhaled Hosseini
245 _aThe kite runner
260 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Publishing ,
_c2003 .
300 _3text
_a343 pages :
_c20 cm.
520 _aA story of fathers and sons, friendship and betrayal, and the casualties of fate 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.
650 _aEnglish - fiction
650 _aFictional - work
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