The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini I think it's about this boy called "Amir", but anyway he lives with his father in this very big and expensive house in Afghanistan, his mother she died while giving her birth, and they have a servant named Ali who has a son named Hassan who is the same age as her, and he is good at many things except he can't read or write and he doesn't go to school because he can't read he is the son of the servant.