The Kite Runner Graphic Novel

The perennial bestseller-now available as a sensational new graphic novel.
Since its publication in 2003, nearly 7 million readers have discovered The Kite Runner. Through Khaled Hosseini's brilliant writing, a previously unknown part of the world was brought to vivid life for readers. Now, in this beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation, Hosseini brings his compelling story to a new generation of readers.

From Booklist
Among the growing ranks of graphic reworkings of contemporary novels, this one retains the flow of the much longer text version with particular elegance. Celoni and Andolfo’s full-color artwork depicts scenes, actions, and character expressions in a manner that resists feeling truncated: this is not a collection of the tale’s highlights but a careful weaving of word and image to give the story a new identity. In Hosseini’s deeply affecting story of the past as inescapable prologue to an idealistic man’s adult life, moments such as Hassan’s rape, the orphanage director trapped between his charges’ hunger and a government official’s corruption, and Sohrab’s first smile in America are here executed with both passion and depth. This graphic novel should not be approached as a précis of the original but rather as an expansion. It matters little whether to read the original or this treatment first; one will invariably lead readers to the other in order to reexperience an important translation of life into art. --Francisca Goldsmith