TY - BOOK AU - Hosseini, Khaled AU - Male friendship TI - And the mountain echoed SN - 9789384898083 (pbk.) U1 - 813.6 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Bloomsburry KW - Arranged marriage KW - Social classes N1 - https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/khaled-hosseini-box-set-9789385436567 N2 - In Hosseini's unforgettable debut novel, The Kite Runner, twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption ER -