The Kite Runner
11 hrs. 16 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Khaled Hosseini
Author
Khaled Hosseini
Narrator
Nikolay Bentslер
Narrator
Nikolay Bentslер
Description
Thin, ironic, and gently sentimental, Khaled Hosseini’s text feels like a painting you want to return to again and again, discovering new shades.
The story is set in 1970s Kabul, a city not yet touched by war. In a city shining with gold and azure, two boys of the same age grow up—Amir and Hassan. One comes from a privileged family, the other from a despised minority. One has a powerful and handsome father; the other—poor, lame, and humiliated. Master and servant, prince and beggar, the lucky one and the cripple—yet there is no one closer to each other than these two boys. But soon their peace will be swept away by brutal changes: the storm of history will lift them like two paper kites and scatter them to different sides. They will face different paths and different losses, but the bond formed in childhood will prove stronger than time and distance.
You race after a paper kite and the wind the same way you chase your own fate, trying to seize it. In the end, though, fate will catch up to you itself.
For a detailed guide to Khaled Hosseini’s work, read
The story is set in 1970s Kabul, a city not yet touched by war. In a city shining with gold and azure, two boys of the same age grow up—Amir and Hassan. One comes from a privileged family, the other from a despised minority. One has a powerful and handsome father; the other—poor, lame, and humiliated. Master and servant, prince and beggar, the lucky one and the cripple—yet there is no one closer to each other than these two boys. But soon their peace will be swept away by brutal changes: the storm of history will lift them like two paper kites and scatter them to different sides. They will face different paths and different losses, but the bond formed in childhood will prove stronger than time and distance.
You race after a paper kite and the wind the same way you chase your own fate, trying to seize it. In the end, though, fate will catch up to you itself.
For a detailed guide to Khaled Hosseini’s work, read
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