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Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.

The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so she can provide support for her family after her father's arrest.

Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Amir and Hassan are good friends growing up together in Afghanistan but when the Soviets invade the country, Amir and his family use their wealth and influence to flee to California, but Hassan and his impoverished family, who are also a shunned ethnic minority, stay and suffer.

"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--Provided by the publisher.

Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, and attempts to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.