The Kite Runner (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Khaled Hosseini
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: From early 1970’s to December, 2001
- Setting: Kabul, Afghanistan; Peshawar, Pakistan; and Fremont, California
- Principal Characters: Amir, Hassan, Baba, Ali, Rahim Khan, Assef, Sohrab, Soraya
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Betrayal, Friendship, Guilt, Class consciousness, 1980’s, California, Immigration or emigration, Fathers, Loyalty, 1990’s, Morality or morals, Middle East, Atonement, Pakistan or Pakistanis, 2000’s, Afghanistan or Afghani people
- Locales: California, Pakistan, Afghanistan
Touted as the first Afghan novel written in English, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner makes up part of the growing branch of Muslim American immigrant literature (along with Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan, both published in 2003). Loosely autobiographical, The Kite Runner begins in the same well-off Kabul neighborhood in which the author grew up with his diplomat father and schoolteacher mother. The action then shifts to California, where the family resettled in the early 1980’s after fleeing Afghanistan.
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