TY - BOOK AU - Hosseini,Khaled TI - The kite runner SN - 1585473634 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) AV - PS3608.O832 K58 2003b U1 - 813/.6 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Thorndike, Me. PB - Center Point Pub. KW - Male friendship KW - Fiction KW - Social classes KW - Betrayal KW - Boys KW - Kabul (Afghanistan) KW - Afghanistan KW - Bildungsromans KW - gsafd KW - Historical fiction KW - Large type books N1 - Unabridged; Originally published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2003 N2 - Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara--a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him ER -