Marc Forster's film adapts Khaled Hosseini's novel about Amir, who betrays his childhood friend Hassan in Kabul and returns to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan as an adult to atone.
Book· 2003· Historical
The Kite Runner
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- Soviet-Afghan War
- Taliban rule
The novel follows Afghanistan from the last years of the monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the flight of refugees to America and Taliban rule, which frames its return to Kabul.