![]() ![]() Main Characters: Amir Baba Hassan Ali Sohrab Rahim Khan Setting: Opens in San Francisco, and then flashes back to Afghanistan and Pakistan Genres: bildungsroman (coming of age novel) historical novelįirst Published: June 2003 by Riverhead Books (hardcover edition) ![]() Published in 2003 to great critical and popular acclaim, The Kite Runner is considered a contemporary classic. It is the story of both fathers and sons and friends and brothers, and it is a novel about right and wrong and the nature of evil. Set in Afghanistan and the United States, The Kite Runner is a bildungsroman that illustrates the similarities as well as the differences between the two countries and the two vastly different cultures. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows the maturation of Amir, a male from Afghanistan who needs to find his way in the world as he realizes that his own belief system is not that of his dominant culture. ![]()
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