The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini · 2003

Amir's betrayal of his childhood friend Hassan haunts him from Kabul to California — and back.

Books mentioned in The Kite Runner (4)

• Masnawi by Rumi: “I could recite dozens of verses from Khayyam, Hãfez, or Rumi's famous Masnawi.”
• Shahnameh by Ferdowsi: “Hassan’s favorite book by far was the Shahnamah, the tenth-century epic of”
• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “I was in my room, reading an abbreviated Farsi translation of Ivanhoe, when he knocked on my door.”
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: “She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. “Have you read it?” she said.”