The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003.
First edition of the author’s first book.
Octavo [x], 1-324, [2, blank] pp. Publisher’s black cloth backstrip over green paper boards, front cover and spine stamped in silver, dust jacket. Minor rubbing to jacket, two small bumps to lower extremities of panels. Still, a fine copy.
This bestselling novel, set in the author’s native country of Afghanistan, is about a young boy, Amir, who is coping with the memory of a childhood trauma, and struggling to grow closer to his father. This book was the basis of the well-received 2007 film.
Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) is a physician and author. He emigrated from Afghanistan (via Paris) to the United States in 1980 to avoid the political unrest in his native country. He is currently the Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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