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As the boys grow apart and start their own lives, "The Kite Runner" follows the transformation of Afghanistan from a peaceful and isolated country to a living hell. The two boys' innocence is shattered one day and their friendship forever changes because of a random act of brutality against Hassan. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells the story of the friendship between a privileged young boy, Amir, and his poor servant, Hassan, in Kabul in the 1970s. Publications including The New York Ties, Chicago Tribune, People and Newsday have described the novel as extraordinary, haunting, moving and riveting. Buy them together and save over 50% off the combined price! = From the Quicklet on The Kite Runner: Published in 2003, The Kite Runner is an international bestseller, with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide. His tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters.This is a discounted bundle featuring Quicklets on 2 of Khaled Hosseini's most important books, including: -The Kite Runner -A Thousand Splendid Suns TABLE OF CONTENTS - Introduction - Plot Summary - Additional Reading - Quicklet On Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns Here are brief product descriptions for each below. Hosseini gives a forceful but nuanced portrait of a patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the bearing of male children being their sole path to social status. Against a backdrop of unending war, Mariam and Laila become allies in an asymmetrical battle with Rasheed, whose violent misogyny-"There was no cursing, no screaming, no pleading, no surprised yelps, only the systematic business of beating and being beaten"-is endorsed by custom and law. Eighteen later, Rasheed takes another wife, 14-year-old Laila, a smart and spirited girl whose only other options, after her parents are killed by rocket fire, are prostitution or starvation.

Mariam is the scorned illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, forced at age 15 into marrying the 40-year-old Rasheed, who grows increasingly brutal as she fails to produce a child. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. With another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner