The best-selling novel "The Kite Runner" has been made into a film, which hasn't even opened yet, but it's already causing concern in Afghanistan and in Hollywood. The film reflects the book's take on ...

The 2003 novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was an instant smash. It hit No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list, selling 7 million copies domestically. It was even adapted into a film in ...

"For you a thousand times over!" The famous line from "The Kite Runner," a 2007 novel by Khaled Hosseini, signifies the love shared by friends in difficult times. Based on the highly-regarded novel, ...

Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel “The Kite Runner” was a sensation when it came out in 2003. Following one Afghan boy through the overthrow of the monarchy in Afghanistan, the Soviet Invasion, refugee ...

In "The Kite Runner," a film set in Afghanistan, American popular culture is remixed into a giant global mash-up. Charles Bronson is mistaken for an Iranian, young Afghan kite fighters steel ...

When it was published in 2003, "The Kite Runner" brought the life and culture of Afghanistan to an America largely wary of the country with which it had gone to war just two years before. Now, Khaled ...

Thanks to the likes of Robert Breen, Frank Galati and Mary Zimmerman, Chicago theater long has been famous for its dramatic interpretations of novels. The list is long: “The Grapes of Wrath,” “The ...