The Kite Runner.

HOSSEINI, Khaled.

Item Number: 139516

New York: Riverhead Books, 2003.

First edition of this modern classic, the basis for the 2007 film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For _____, It always hurts more to love and lose than to not love in the first place… Khaled Hosseini.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.

“A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today" (New York Times Book Review).