I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.
An edition of The Kite Runner
(2003)
The kite runner
Riverhead mass-market international ed.
by Khaled Hosseini
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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.
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Afghanistan, Kabul (Afganistán), Kabul (Afghanistan), Kābol (Afghanistan), Kabul, Hazarajat, Soviet Union, Peshawar, Pakistan, America, Fremont, California, San Jose State University, San JoseTimes
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Kite Runner 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel
2023, Penguin Publishing Group
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追风筝的人: The Kite Runner
2017, Shi ji chu ban ji tuan, Shanghai ren min chu ban she
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2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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The Kite Runner
May 21, 2013, Simon & Schuster Audio
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Gha kāiṭa ranara
2011, Navabhārata Sāhitya Mandira, Prāptisthāna, Buka Śelpha
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The Kite Runner
2007?, Riverhead Books
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in English
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The kite runner
2007, Riverhead Books
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06.12.2007, Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, Berliner pocket_book Verlag
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The Kite Runner
2007-10, Riverhead Books
Paperback
in English
- Riverhead movie tie-in ed. (1)
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The Kite Runner
2007, Riverhead Hardcover, Riverhead Books
Hardcover
in English
- Illustrated Edition
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2006-12, Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag
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Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul
October 1, 2006, French & European Pubns
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in French
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2005, Riverhead Books
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Zhui feng zheng de hai zi
2005, Mu ma wen hua shi ye you xian gong si
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The Kite Runner
2005-09, Riverhead Books
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in English
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O caçadorde pipas
2005, Editora Nova Fronteira
Paperback
in Portuguese
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2004, Bloomsbury
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in English
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2004, Bloomsbury
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2004-05, Riverhead Books
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The Kite Runner
2003, Center Point Publishing, Center Point Pub
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The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
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