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The perennial bestsellernow available as a sensational new graphic novel. Oct 20, 2006 khaled hosseini, below, is following up his bestselling kite runner with a second novel, a thousand splendid suns. It is also one of the few books that i have read on a tradition that has been forgotten since a long while now of kite flying and running. Since its publication in 2003, nearly 7 million readers have discovered the kite runner. Khaled hosseini and kite runner the kite runner, the debut novel by afghaniborn physician and author khaled hosseini, has been on bestseller and book club lists for nearly a. Khaled hosseini, author of the kite runner, aims to build bridges to.
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