TY - BOOK AU - Hosseini,Khaled TI - The Kite runner SN - 1594480001 (pbk.) : U1 - 813.6 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead Books KW - Male friendship KW - Fiction KW - Social classes KW - Betrayal KW - Boys KW - Kabul (Afghanistan) KW - Afghanistan N2 - Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara--a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him ER -