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  2. The Kite Runner - Wikipedia

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    The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. [1] Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the exodus of ...

  3. Khaled Hosseini - Wikipedia

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    The author read the audio version of The Kite Runner as well. The Kite Runner has been adapted into a film of the same name released in December 2007. Hosseini made a cameo appearance towards the end of the movie as a bystander, when Amir purchases a kite which he, then, flies with Sohrab. Afghanistan is the setting for Hosseini's second book ...

  4. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Wikipedia

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    A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner. Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a relatively privileged life, but her ...

  5. Griffin Dunne on David Sedaris, 'The Kite Runner,' and The ...

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    The title of Griffin Dunne’s first book, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir (Penguin Press) comes from the name of a weekly party his younger sister, Dominique, threw for her acting ...

  6. The Kite Runner (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Kite Runner. (film) The Kite Runner is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir (Ebrahimi) a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his ...

  7. The Kite Runner (play) - Wikipedia

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    The Kite Runner (play) The Kite Runner. (play) The Kite Runner is a stage adaption of Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini 's 2003 book The Kite Runner. Aside from sharing the 2003 book as a source, it is unrelated to the 2007 film The Kite Runner. The play was adapted for the stage by Matthew Spangler and premiered at San Jose Repertory ...

  8. “You’re Lying”: Stephen King Sparks Debate With ... - AOL

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    Some of the thousands of books banned include classics and certain literary masterpieces like The Prince of Egypt by Jane Yole, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

  9. And the Mountains Echoed - Wikipedia

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    829999614. And the Mountains Echoed is the third novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2013 by Riverhead Books, it deviates from Hosseini's style in his first two works through his choice to avoid focusing on any one character. Rather, the book is written similarly to a collection of short stories, with each of the nine ...