The Kite Runner.

HOSSEINI, Khaled.

Item Number: 140794

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 title page, “For _____, ‘For you , a thousand times over.’ 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). Adapted into the 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff starring Khalid Abdalla.