Author Khaled Hosseini. Photograph Ulf Andersen/Getty
After a sluggish start, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's word-of-mouth bestseller about a boy growing up in Kabul, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list, and has been voted the reading group book of the year two years in a row.
Hosseini takes us back to the anonymous world of Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion in 1979. An act of childhood betrayal sets the novel in motion towards a journey of redemption, 20 years later.
Now a feature film, we've teamed up with Audible.co.uk to offer an extract from Hosseini's audio version of the book, as well as the chance to get 50% off a download of the entire book. Audible's full range of Hosseini audio books can be found here.
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