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The Kite Runner: where to start reading
Adapts The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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After Film (2007), in the books you are
at The Kite Runner.
through the end of the novel.
The film follows the whole novel's arc. Critics note it is gentler in tone than Hosseini's prose and gives less weight to the book's political backdrop, but the story and events track the source. A self-contained standalone.
Start reading at The Kite Runner (the novel)
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
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What the movies changed here
- ChangedHassan's cleft lip, which the novel uses to underline the ethnic divide between him and Amir, is absent in the film.
- ChangedAssef loses his book backstory as a Hitler-admiring, half-German bully, played instead as an ordinary Afghan tough.
- ChangedThe novel's graphic assault on Hassan is only implied on screen, keeping the film to a PG-13.
- CutThe film gives less weight to the book's political backdrop and softens the tone of Hosseini's prose.
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The 2007 film adapts Khaled Hosseini's single 2003 novel, softening the prose and thinning some of the book's political detail.
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