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The Kite Runner: Dyslexia Friendly Edition
By (Author) Khaled Hosseini
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
4th February 2025
31st October 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Narrative theme: Sense of place
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Migration, immigration and emigration
Paperback
648
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper. Devastating Daily Telegraph Heartbreaking The Times Unforgettable Isabel Allende Haunting Independent Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is 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 Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved authors. His novels The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed have sold over 55 million copies all over the world. Hosseini is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California