A little bit about 'The Kite Runner'

Hosseini states'

-'The story line of my novel is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. However, there certainly are, as in always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. Probably the passages most resembling my own life are the ones in the U.S., with Amir and Baba trying to build a new life. I also came to the U.S. as an immigrant and I recall vividly those few years in California. My father and I worked at the flea market and rows of Afghans there.'

-Hosseini experienced Kabul with his brother 'the way Amir and Hassain do: long school days in the Summer, kite flying in the Winter time, Westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, of Afghanistan because the spectre was landmines, and famine.'