The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini [FIRST EDITION] 2003 • Riverhead Books

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  FIRST EDITION [2003] RIVERHEAD BOOKS 6th Printing / 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Dust jacket is clean, bright and in tact / with metallic embossed fonts on front.  *Jacket has one sealed mid-sized tear along spine on rear (See photos) -- otherwise excellent.  Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.  Book itself is mint.  Looks and reads like new.  "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975." So begins The Kite Runner, a poignant tale of two motherless boys growing up in Kabul, a city teetering on the brink of destruction at the dawn of the Soviet invasion. Despite their class differences, Amir, the son of a wealthy businessman, and Hassan, his devoted sidekick and the son of Amir's household servant, play together, cause mischief together, and compete in the annual kite-fighting tournament -- Amir flying the kite, and Hassan running down the kites they f