The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

I just finished listening to the unabridged audio-book version of Khaled Hosseini's first novel. It tells the story of Amir, a privelidged Afghan boy growing up in the years before the Russian invasion. As the country dissolves into chaos, Amir and his father emmigrate to the United States, finding a new life among other Afghan refugees. As an adult Amir must make a return trip to his homeland to honour the memory of his childhood friend and earn himself redemption from a boyhood act of cowardice.