The Kite Runner - Kahled Hosseini

Abstract

The Kite Runner is a historical fiction and drama which was written by the Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini and was published in 2003. The story is fictional but is based on true events as the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the soviet invasion in 1979, the exodus of one third of the country's pre-war population to Pakistan, Iran and the United States and the rise of the Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001 which led power in Afghanistan and enforced the Islamic law.