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Ali was adopted as a baby by Amir's grandfather, after Ali's parents were killed in a car accident by reckless Pashtuns.
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"Zahir Shah began his 40 year reign over Afghanistan" (November 8th) -being the last king- on the same year of Baba's birth.
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We learn that Amir was born in 1963, one year before Hassan.
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In chapter 2, Amir mentions "eighteen year that I lived in that house", directing the readers to understand the length of time he's lived in Kabul before he had to immigrate to his second home in America.
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Amir mentions "eighteen years I had lived in that house" (in Kabul), until he had to immigrate to America.
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The communist king's reign was bloodlessly overthrown by his cousin (Daoud Khan- president), leaving the monarchy to be no more (the last king), whilst he was in Italy.
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Winter of the year of Hassan's assault.
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Rahim Khan gifted him the leather-bound notebook. two days after, Amir planted the money and watch underneath Hassan's mattress prompting them to leave.
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Amir refers to the beginning of the nine-year soviet war in the quote "Russian tanks would roll into the very same streets where Hassan and I had played".
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By 1983 Baba and Amir have new lives in Fremont, California in America.
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a few months afterwards Baba dies and his funeral is held in Heyward's mosque.
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The novel gets represented and sold.
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The story begins in 2001, where Amir has a flashback to the "winter of 1975". This prompts the story to set in motion by chapter 2 which will be told in past tense until chapter 14.
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Amir has a flashback to the "winter of 1975", this sets the story in motion from a farther back time in chapter 2 through a past tense, first person, narrative.
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Rahim Khan convinces Amir to visit his home -Pakistan- due to his sickness.