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The kite runner : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780385660075 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781573222457 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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394 p. ; 21 cm. - Publisher: [Toronto] : Anchor Canada, 2004, c2003.
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| Subject: | Male friendship -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction Betrayal -- Fiction Boys -- Fiction Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Fiction Afghanistan -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | PS 3608 O77 K58 2004 (Text) | 26040003287584 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
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The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers all over the world.
Amir and Hassan are childhood friends in the alleys and orchards of Kabul in the sunny days before the invasion of the Soviet army and Afghanistanâs decent into fanaticism. Both motherless, they grow up as close as brothers, but their fates are to be different. Amirâs father is a wealthy merchant; Hassanâs father is his manservant. Amir belongs to the ruling caste of Pashtuns, Hassan to the despised Hazaras.
This fragile idyll is broken by the mounting ethnic, religious and political tensions that begin to divide Afghanistan further. An unspeakable assault on Hassan by a gang of local boys tears the friends apart; and when the Soviets invade Afghanistan, Amir and his father flee to San Francisco, leaving Hassan and his father to a pitiless fate. Only years later will Amir have an opportunity to redeem himself by returning to Afghanistan to begin to repay the debt long owed to the man who should have been his brother.
Compelling, heartrending and etched with details of a history never before told in fiction, The Kite Runner is a story of the ways in which weâre damned by our moral failures, and of the extravagant cost of redemption.
