The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2011.Description: 343 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781408824856 (pbk.)
- 140882485X (pbk.)
- 813 HOS
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 813 HOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100658591 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Afghanistan, 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 4, 1965. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Santa Clara University in 1988 and a medical degree from the University of California-San Diego's School of Medicine in 1993. He was a practicing internist from 1996 to 2004.While in medical practice, he began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, which was published in 2003. His other books include A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed. In 2006, he was named a Goodwill Envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He established The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
(Bowker Author Biography)