Hosseini and his family moved to Paris in 1976, then immigrated to the United States in 1980 as refugees with political asylum. Khaled Hosseini was born in 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan, the setting of much of the action in The Kite Runner. The action closes soon after the fall of the Taliban and alludes to the rise of Hamid Karzai as leader of a new Afghan government in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. The novel sets the interpersonal drama of the characters against the backdrop of the modern history of Afghanistan, sketching the political and economic toll of the instability of various regimes in Afghanistan from the end of the monarchy to the Soviet-backed government of the 1980s to the fundamentalist Taliban government of the 1990s. As the protagonist Amir grows to adulthood, he must come to terms with his past wrongs and adjust to a new culture after leaving Afghanistan for the United States. The Kite Runner, a coming-of-age novel, deals with the themes of identity, loyalty, courage, and deception. Amir's closest friend is his playmate and servant Hassan, a poor illiterate boy who is a member of the Hazara ethnic minority. The action of the story then moves backward in time to the narrator's early life in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is the only child of a privileged merchant. The adult narrator, Amir, lives in San Francisco and is contemplating his past, thinking about a boyhood friend whom he has betrayed. The Kite Runner is the story of strained family relationships between a father and a son, and between two brothers, how they deal with guilt and forgiveness, and how they weather the political and social transformations of Afghanistan from the 1970s to 2001. The novel is set in Afghanistan from the late 1970s to 1981 and the start of the Soviet occupation, then in the Afghan community in Fremont, California from the 1980s to the early 2000s, and finally in contemporary Afghanistan during the Taliban regime. Initially published by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin, The Kite Runner was said to be the first novel written in English by an Afghan writer, and the book appeared on many book club reading lists. He was ashamed that, unlike Baba, he had acted out because of his guilt rather than doing good.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was published in 2003. He ended the letter by requesting that Amir not look for him. He said he had left money for Amir in a safety deposit box, which the key would open. Amir, he said, should learn from Baba's example and try to redeem himself as well. Rahim Khan believed that all of Baba's charity was in atonement for his sin. His betrayal of Ali and the fact that he could never claim Hassan as his son tortured him.
Baba, he said, was hard on Amir only because of his own guilt. Rahim Khan explained that it was hard for him to watch Amir vying for Baba's attention. He assured Amir that he had suffered from his guilt so much only because he was a good, caring person. He told Amir that he did betray his friend, but reminded him that he was only a boy at the time. In it, he revealed that Hassan told him about the rape soon after it happened.
After Sohrab left, Amir read Rahim Khan's letter.
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