"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini writes about an unlikely friendship between a wealthy man's son and the son of a servant in "The Kite Runner." The book opens with Amir recalling his childhood in a well-to-do household in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he grew up alongside Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a member of an ethnic minority known as Hazaras.

The pivotal moment in the boys' lives comes during a kite-flying tournament in winter. Amir wins the tournament and Hassan must run to fetch the losing kite, but is attacked and raped along the way. Amir pretends not to have seen this injustice.

The novel explores the complicated legacies fathers leave for their sons, the search for redemption and the intersection of political narratives with private lives.

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