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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over.<BR><BR>New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century <BR><BR>“A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today.”—The New York Times Book Review<BR><BR> The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also 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.<BR>  <BR> Since its publication in 2003 Kite Runner has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic of contemporary literature, touching millions of readers, and launching the career of one of America's most treasured writers.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER<BR><BR>'Devastating' Daily Telegraph<BR>'Heartbreaking' The Times<BR>'Unforgettable' Isabel Allende<BR>'Haunting' Independent<BR><BR>Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

Amir wächst in einer wohlhabenden Familie in Kabul auf und findet im Sohn des Hausdieners, Hassan, einen guten Freund. Die beiden lieben es, gemeinsam Drachen steigen zu lassen. Doch eines Tages begeht Amir einen furchtbaren Verrat an Hassan und ihre Freundschaft zerbricht. Jahrzehnte später hat Amir die Gelegenheit, seinen Fehler wiedergutzumachen, doch seine große Schuld lässt ihn verzweifeln.Zusammen mit Amir erleben die Leser die bewegte und gewalttätige Geschichte Afghanistans sowie die Unwägbarkeiten einer Auswanderung. Sie nehmen Teil am Leben eines Jungen, der unter diesen Umständen aufwächst und als Erwachsener lernen muss, mit der Schuld der Kindheit umzugehen.

The Kite Runner. Odnogo moroznogo dnja vzimku 1975-go afgans'kij hlopchik Amir stae svidkom zhahlivogo vchinku. Cja podija nazavzhdi zminjue i jogo vlasne zhittja, i dolju jogo bliz'kogo prijatelja Gassana. Ta rich ne lishe v pobachenomu, a j u tomu, shho Amir ne vtrutivsja, nichogo ne zrobiv, lishivsja stojati ostoron'. Bojaguztvo, ba navit' vidstupnictvo, bude peresliduvati jogo protjagom zhittja spershu v Afganistani, potim v Americi, azh doki Amir naberet'sja muzhnosti, kine viklik usim svojim vnutrishnim demonam i znajde «sposib znovu stati horoshim». «Lovec' povitrjanih zmijiv» debjutnij roman afgano-amerikans'kogo avtora Haleda Gossejni, jakij pobachiv svit 2003-go i zgodom dva roki pospil' ocholjuvav spisok bestseleriv The New York Times, a 2007-go za jogo motivami bulo znjato odnojmennij fil'm.

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.<BR><BR>Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.<BR><BR>Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul--they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.<BR><BR>A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.