"Khaled Hosseini is een van de meest geliefde auteurs ter wereld. Van zijn debuutroman De vliegeraar werden in Nederland en Vlaanderen 1,5 miljoen exemplaren verkocht en ook Duizend schitterende zonnen werd een grote bestseller. In 2013 verscheen Hosseini’s grootse, nieuwe roman En uit de bergen kwam de echo. Hij is ambassadeur voor de United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees en de United Nations Refugee Agency, en hij is de oprichter van de Khaled Hosseini Foundation, een organisatie die humanitaire hulp biedt aan het volk van Afghanistan.


Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him - for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted and jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then, what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives, and define their futures. When Russia invades Afghanistan, Amir and Baba escape to San Francisco, where Baba fades but Amir feels that at last he can succeed.
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A gripping read and a haunting story of love, loss and betrayal. Guaranteed to move even the hardest heart * Independent * Shattering ... devastating and inspiring * Observer * Hosseini is a truly gifted teller of tales ... he's not afraid to pull every string in your heart to make it sing * The Times * Rings true with tenderness and truth * Daily Mail * A devastating, masterful and painfully honest story of a life crippled by an act of childhood and cowardice and cruelty ... It speaks the harrowing truth about the power of evil, personal and political, and intoxicates, like a high-flying kite, with the power of hope * Daily Telegraph * Stunning and heartbreaking in its quiet intensity * Guardian * This is one of those unforgettable stories that stay with you for years. All the great themes of literature and of life are the fabric of this extraordinary novel: love, honour, guilt, fear, redemption ... It is so powerful that for a long time after, everything I read seemed bland * Isabel Allende * The novel that made Afghanistan the talking-point of every book group * Guardian, 50 Books that Defined the Decade *