Set in pre-Taliban and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, The Kite Runner is a thrilling story about fathers and sons, sin and atonement, injustice and the human yearning for redemption. 

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afganistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international best seller, published in forty countries. In 2006 he was name a U.S. envoy to UNHCR, The United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California. The kite runner on squidoo.