Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Pages
x; 372
Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
Subjects
Language
Original publication date
2003
Physical description
x, 372 p.; 21 cm
Other editions
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Paperback)
Media reviews
The Kite Runner is about the price of peace, both personal and political, and what we knowingly destroy in our hope of achieving that, be it friends, democracy or ourselves.
At times, the book suffers from relentless earnestness and somewhat hackneyed descriptions. But Hosseini has a remarkable ability to imprison the reader in horrific, shatteringly immediate scenes... The result is a sickening sensation of complicity.
This powerful first novel, by an Afghan physician now living in California, tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love.
Awards
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2007)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2006)
Alex Award (2004)
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee — 2006)
Borders Original Voices (Fiction — 2003)
Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (Winner — 2004)
Prix des libraires du Québec (2006)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction — 2004)
Whitcoulls Top 100 Books (21 — 2010)
Reading Across Rhode Island (2005)
Notable Books List (2004)
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound (Social Sciences — 2004)
World Library by The Guardian (Afghanistan)