The Kite Runner Of Khaled Hosseinis Deeply Moving Fiction Debut Is An Illiterate Afghan Boy With An Uncanny Instinct For Predicting Exactly Where A Downed Kite Will Land. Growing Up In The City Of Kabul In The Early 1970s, Hassan Was Narrator Amirs Closest Friend Even Though The Loyal 11-year-old With A Face Like A Chinese Doll Was The Son Of Amirs Fathers Servant And The Kite Runner Of Khaled Hosseinis Deeply Moving Fiction Debut Is An Illiterate Afghan Boy With An Uncanny Instinct For Predicting Exactly Where A Downed Kite Will Land. Growing Up In The City Of Kabul In The Early 1970s, Hassan Was Narrator Amirs Closest Friend Even Though The Loyal 11-year-old With A Face Like A Chinese Doll Was The Son Of Amirs Fathers Servant And A Member Of Afghanistans Despised Hazara Minority. But In 1975, On The Day Of Kabuls Annual Kite-fighting Tournament, Something Unspeakable Happened Between The Two Boys.