The kite runner
Record details
- ISBN: 0743530233
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Physical Description:
8 sound cassettes (ca. 12 hrs.) : analog, Dolby processed.
sound cassette
sound recording - Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2003.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. In container (18 cm.). |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
Summary, etc.: | Story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul during the final days of the monarchy. When Amir is forced to flee with his prominent and wealthy father for a new life in California, he leaves behind Hassan, the son of his father's servant. Amir cannot, however, leave the memory of Hassan behind him. |
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Subject: | Kabul (Afghanistan) Fiction Afghanistan Fiction Social classes Fiction Male friendship Fiction Boys Fiction Betrayal Fiction |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Bildungsromans. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Douglas Library - North Canaan | CD HOS (Text) | 33490030000503 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
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Author Notes
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 4, 1965. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Santa Clara University in 1988 and a medical degree from the University of California-San Diego's School of Medicine in 1993. He was a practicing internist from 1996 to 2004. While in medical practice, he began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, which was published in 2003. His other books include A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed. In 2006, he was named a Goodwill Envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He established The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. (Bowker Author Biography)