When a body is starving for sugar, ketones take over and help breakdown the next best source of energy: stored fat. The body produces ketones during starvation or fasting and also during long bouts of physical training. When your muscles are sore after strenuous exercise - ketones cause the pain.
Khaled Hosseini published The Kite Runner in 2003. By the end of 2005, it was a bestseller in the United States. It seemed readers couldn't get enough Hosseini's story about the troubled friendship between two Afghan boys.
Transcript of Novel Presentation: The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner The book The Kite Runner was written in 2001 and published in 2003 by Khaled Hosseini. It was the first book published in English by an Afghan. Background on The Author. Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, where much of the book takes place.