The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Now in paperback, the first Afghan novel to be written in Englishtransports each of us to Afghanistan, a place and a people we’ve only experienced through newsreels and newspaper photographs, and powerfully reveals the human story of war.

This bestselling, devastating novel of two Afghan boys growing into adulthood takes readers from the last days of Afghanistan’s monarchy to the atrocities of the Taliban.