Kite Runner Timeline

  • Baba's Father

    Baba's Father
    Baba's grandfather get's married, and Baba's fatehr is born.
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    Kite Runner

    A timeline of the events in the Kite Runner.
  • Baba's Birth

    Baba's Birth
    Baba is born on a beautiful winter morning.
  • Amir's Birth

    Amir's Birth
    When Baba is 30 years old, on a gorgeous day in May, he's new son Amir is born.
  • Hassan's Brith

    Hassan's Brith
    A year after Amir is born, the new servant baby Hassan is brought into the world.
  • Author

    Author
    Khaled Hosseini is born.
  • Kite Contest

    Kite Contest
    Amir has finally won the Kite Contest! But with the help of Hassan of course
  • Hassan's rape

    After the big win of the Kite contest Hassan goes to get the kite to please Amir, and ends up being raped in the alley.
  • Family

    Khaled Hosseini and his family are relocated to Paris
  • Leaving

    Leaving
    Hassan and Ali leave in 1976. They leave because Ali believes they have disgraced Baba.
  • Invasion

    Invasion
    Russians invade and Baba and Amir leave Afghanistan.
  • Graduation

    Khaled Hosseini graduated from college, UCSD
  • Amir Meets a lady

    Amir Meets a lady
    Amir meets Soraya at the flea market, the person who will soon become his wife.
  • Death

    Baba dies one month after the wedding in 1986. Many people attend his funeral.
  • The Big Day

    The Big Day
    Amir and Soroya get married and Baba spends nearly $35,000 of his life savings on the wedding.
  • Novel

    Novel
    Amir has his first novel accepted in 1988.
  • Writing

    Writing
    In 2001, Khaled Hosseini began to write his works of the Kite Runner.
  • Publication

    Today Kite Runner is published.