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Category Title Kite Runner(More Info) ISBN 9780747566 Author(s) Hosseini Khaled Summary Kite Runner by Hosseinimore) Kite Runner by Hosseini Khaled Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? for he always helps Amir? but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage and the place he holds in his father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament, which was 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 find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption (less) List Price Rs. 295.40 Dealer Price Rs. 230.41 Format Paperback Publisher Penguin Uk Website www.indiaplaza.in Creation Date 326 day(s) ago

Category Fiction Title The Kite Runner(More Info) ISBN 978074756 Author(s) Khaled Hosseini Summary In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, more) In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country`s political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try. The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir`s father`s servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.") Some of the plot`s turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America`s collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends (less) List Price Rs. 309.00 Dealer Price Rs. 309.00 Format Publisher BLOOMSBURY Website www.om-books.com Creation Date 309 day(s) ago
Category Fiction Title The Kite Runner(More Info) ISBN 978904756 Author(s) Khaled Hosseini Summary The Kite Runner of Khaledmore) The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini`s deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir`s closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir`s father`s servant and a member of Afghanistan`s despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul`s annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir`s equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah`s 40-year reign and traces the country`s fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan`s orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling. The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Inventive, playful, heartbreaking, brimming with ideas and memorable characters, The Alchemy of Desire celebrates the chaotic spirit of a country during a time of great change. It also offers, in searing, lucid prose, a deeply sensual and moving meditation on the nature of desire, history, truth, and art. This is a major novel by one of the most significant new voices of his generation (less) List Price Rs. 320.00 Dealer Price Rs. 320.00 Format Hardcover Publisher BLOOMSBURY Website www.om-books.com Creation Date 309 day(s) ago
Category Title The Kite Runner : Save 22(More Info) ISBN 0747566534 Author(s) Khaled Hosseini Summary The Kite Runner by Khaledmore) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a deeply moving fiction debut about an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling. The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park (less) List Price Rs. 302.05 Dealer Price Rs. 235.60 Format Paperback Publisher Bloomsbury Books Website www.indiaplaza.in Creation Date 384 day(s) ago
Category Fiction Title The Kite Runner(More Info) ISBN 0747566534 Author(s) Khaled Hosseini Summary (more) (less) List Price Rs.0.00 Dealer Price Rs.0.00 Format Paper Back Publisher Bloomsbury Website www.granth.com Creation Date 454 day(s) ago
Category Action & Thrillers Title Kite Runner(More Info) ISBN 747566534 Author(s) Khaled Hosseini Summary (more) (less) List Price Dealer Price Rs.268 Format Paperback Publisher penguin uk Website landmark.rediff.com Creation Date 451 day(s) ago
Category more.. Title The Kite Runner(More Info) ISBN Author(s) Khaled Hosseini Summary (more) (less) List Price INR. 25.00 Dealer Price INR. 25.00 Format Paperback Publisher 2003, Paperback, Bloomsbury ( Penguin Books) Website shopping.indiatimes.com Creation Date 279 day(s) ago
Category Title A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS(More Info) ISBN 978074758 Author(s) Khaled Hosseini Summary A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliba... (more) A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment (less) List Price Rs. 517.00 Dealer Price Rs. 517.00 Format Publisher BLOOMSBURY Website www.om-books.com Creation Date 368 day(s) ago

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