This stage version of Khaled Hosseini’s international bestselling novel and film has enjoyed some excellent reviews since premiering last year. Taking its audience on a journey across time and continents, it encompasses both the traumas of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the horrors of 9/11 some twenty-two years later. At its heartland, though, is the story of the friendship that exists between two youngsters - Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy, and Hassan, a Hazara who’s the son of Amir's father's servant. The boys spend their days happy in one another’s company and kite flying together - until, that is, their friendship is devastated and their lives shattered by a display of shameful cowardice on Amir’s part...

The Kite Runner shows at The REP, Birmingham from Mon 22 September - Sat 4 October and we've joined with the theatre to offer readers the chance to win one of three pairs of tickets to the 7.30pm performance on Tues 23 September.

Competition closes 16 September

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Khaled Hosseini also wrote which of the following:

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