The best-selling novel "The Kite Runner" has been made into a film, which hasn't even opened yet, but it's already causing concern in Afghanistan and in Hollywood. The film reflects the book's take on ...

The 2003 novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was an instant smash. It hit No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list, selling 7 million copies domestically. It was even adapted into a film in ...

A Wake County school committee has rejected a parent’s request to remove the book “The Kite Runner” from the high school English curriculum. “The Kite Runner” is an award-winning but frequently ...

"For you a thousand times over!" The famous line from "The Kite Runner," a 2007 novel by Khaled Hosseini, signifies the love shared by friends in difficult times. Based on the highly-regarded novel, ...

Wake County school board panel voted 3-0 to retain 'The Kite Runner' in curriculum. Parent challenge cited graphic themes, but review committee pointed to educational value. 'The Kite Runner' ranked ...

Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 bestselling novel The Kite Runner is the sort of compelling, epic morality tale that spans eras and cultures, depicts friendship and betrayal, loyalty and cowardice, acts of ...

It’s a tale that strikes at the heart of Afghan American identity, a generation of people who fled the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan to the U.S. and started over, watching painfully as their former ...

Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 tearjerker novel “The Kite Runner” has no shortage of terrible traumas: deaths, beatings, a rape, the disastrous takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. To say the very least, ...

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's 2003 best-selling novel, is a compelling portrait of life in Afghanistan and its immigrant community in the United States. Thursday night, a stage adaptation opens ...

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A parent filed a book challenge to have “The Kite Runner” removed from Wake County high schools. A Wake County school committee has rejected a parent’s request to remove the book “The Kite Runner” ...