The great success of Afghan-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, Kabul kites, will be presented on Broadway in July, announced Tuesday the New York Times.
Posted at 11:05 a.m.
The piece, created in California in 2007 and performed in particular in the famous West End district of London, will be on view from July 6 to October 30.
This news comes as Broadway faces a massive closure of its theaters due to the new wave due to the Omicron variant.
The play is programmed at the Hayes Theater which, with its 600 seats, is the smallest theater on Broadway.
Originally released in the United States in 2003 as The Kite Runner, this first novel by the adopted American tells the story of two children, one Pashtun and the other of the rival Hazara ethnic group, through the turbulent history of Afghanistan. It had been published in French in 2007, then translated into more than a dozen languages, meeting worldwide success. The novel was also adapted to the cinema, in 2007, as well as in comics.