Abdalla, Khalid 1980-

The kite runner ( Visual )
4 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 2,390 libraries worldwide
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.

Green zone ( Visual )
10 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,295 libraries worldwide
During the Iraq war, U.S. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller leads Mobile Exploitation Team-Delta (MET-D) on a fruitless search of suspected WMD sites. When he wonders out loud why the intelligence is all wrong, he's told not rock the boat. Soon Miller, working with a local Iraqi informant named Freddy, is going after a Ba'athist general named Al-Rawi. CIA agent Martin Brown and journalist Lawrie Dayne share Miller's doubts; each have some pieces to the puzzle. They try to help Miller out, but Department of Defense official Clark Poundstone treats the WMD problem like a PR kerfuffle. When a Delta Force squad is dispatched to intimidate him and shut his team down, Miller's questioning mutates into a quest: to learn the identity and motives of "Magellan," the highly protected source of this faulty information.

The kite runner ( Visual )
10 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and German and held by 36 libraries worldwide
Two young boys in Afghanistan are inseparable until one day their relationship is torn apart, and years later one of them returns to try to redeem himself.

The kite runner Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul by Marc Forster ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide

Cometas en el cielo The kite runner ( Visual )
4 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in Multiple languages and French and held by 2 libraries worldwide
De niños, Amir y Hassan eran amigos inseparables, hasta que un terrible acontecimiento les separó. Años después, Amir se embarcará en un peligroso viaje para enmendar los errores del pasado y tratar de redimirse de una manera que no esperaba ... mostrando todo su valor y lealtad a su amigo.

The kite runner (2007) by Marc Forster ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.

Drachenläufer ( )
1 edition published in 2009 in German and held by 2 libraries worldwide

The kite runner Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul ( Visual )
in French and held by 1 library worldwide
Afghanistan, 1978. Fils unique d'un riche entrepreneur, Amir, 12 ans, gagne un combat annuel de cerfs-volants avec l'aide de son fidèle ami Hassan, le fils du domestique. Le même jour, un menaçant jeune du quartier viole ce dernier, qu'il méprise en raison de son origine ethnique. Amir, qui assiste de loin à la scène, n'a pas le courage d'intervenir. Rongé par la culpabilité, il tient désormais son ami à distance et va jusqu'à provoquer son renvoi de la maison. Un an plus tard, lorsque l'armée soviétique envahit l'Afghanistan, Amir et son père se réfugient aux États-Unis. Les années passent. En 2000, Amir, devenu écrivain, se voit forcé de retourner dans son pays natal pour sauver le fils d'Hassan, envoyé dans un orphelinat délabré depuis la mort de ses parents des mains des talibans.

Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul by Marc Forster ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Conduit par la peur, Amir trahit son ami... Vingt ans plus tard, dans un pays marqué par les Taliban, il revient à la recherche du pardon... A voir pour le beau jeu des enfants, apprentis comédiens afghans...

Green zone / #774 ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.