At a normal walking pace, it would take around 20 minutes to walk around the 27-acre square field. If the 27 acres are in any shape more rectangular or irregular than a square, it will take longer to walk around.
Hosseni wrote The Kite Runner to show the world the way that common issues of identity, assimilation and power are carried out in his culture in Afghanistan. He spends a great deal of time developing Amir and showing how he comes to a self-identity by the end of the book.
While The Kite Runner is certainly a novel (fiction), it would be accurate to describe it as semi-autobiographical because Hosseini grew up in the same Afghanistan that Amir experiences, fled the country when the coupe and Soviet invasion took place, settled in the Fremont, California area just like Baba and Amir, and watched his father struggle ...