War Novels: The Kite Runner

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini was first published in 2003. The story revolves around a young boy named Amir from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul.

Hassan, his father's young Hazara servant, is Amir's closest friend. Amir's story is set against a tumultuous background of war and other events in Afghanistan.