<CENTER>A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption</CENTER>

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara -- a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.

The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons -- their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows us for redemption.

卡勒德·鬍賽尼（Khaled Hosseini），1965年生於阿富汗喀布爾市，後隨父親遷往美國。鬍賽尼畢業於加州大學聖地亞哥醫學係，現居加州。“立誌拂去濛在阿富汗普通民眾麵孔的塵灰，將背後靈魂的悸動展示給世人。”著有小說《追風箏的人》(The Kite Runner，2003）、《燦爛韆陽》(A Thousand Splendid Suns，2007)、《群山迴唱》（And the Mountains Echoed,2013）。作品全球銷量超過4000萬冊。2006年，因其作品巨大的國際影響力，鬍賽尼獲得聯閤國人道主義奬，並受邀擔任聯閤國難民署親善大使。