The Kite Runner is the first novel by an Afghan-American author to be published in English. In the context of political and historical events, the kite tells a modern story in the heart of the Middle East.

The Kite Book is a story about the life of an Afghan boy named Amir who lived in Kabul before the Afghan unrest. The story begins with a relatively free Afghanistan in the 1970s dominated by the monarchy. Amir lived with his father in a large mansion in Kabul and was the only child in the family. His mother had died in childbirth and Amir always blamed himself for the accident and his father's lack of attention to himself due to his mother's death.

In the mansion where Amir lived, a servant named Ali was also present with his son Hassan, who was almost the same age as Amir. Hassan's mother had left them after giving birth, and Ali and his son lived alone.

Amir and Hassan are good teammates for each other, but Amir is always ashamed to call Hassan his friend. Hassan was a loyal and devoted servant and friend and always said to Amir: I have sacrificed my life thousands of times. But Amir was always jealous of his father's love for Ali and Hassan, and thought that with their departure from that mansion, his father's attention and love for him would increase.