“The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ”
By: Mithilah Mahendran
The book that almost gave me a fever.
There are two things in this book that forced me to stop reading in the midst and take a break because I could not handle the intensity of the characters. 1) The young boy (the ‘servant’), 2) The characters’ migration from Afghanistan to America. (I read Dan Brown’s ‘Angels and Demons’ in order to get away from all the emotions that ‘Kite Runner’ was stirring up). This book is everything real immigrant/refugee experiences are made of. Hosseini uses childhood well in his writing, and tortures you with it. I still can not get the characters out of my mind.
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