Title : The Kite Runner Author : Khaled Hosseini
Pages : 400
Synopsis:
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara, member of a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When the Soviets invade and Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
My Thoughts:
I recently finished reading this book and found that it's really good. Quite a tragic story, it's a novel about friendship, betrayal and the price of loyalty. It's also a story about history that's never been told in fiction before. A lot of stuff about karma in it at the end..it's really worth getting if you haven't already read it..
2 comments:
It is hard to put this book down, read it within a day 'cause I need to know what is going on with Amir, the main character of the book. Since the setting is in Afganistan the writer using some words and expression in Farsi,Afgan Language, that is so beautiful and moving, the stories just flow.
A must read book.
I love this book! I've read it twice now and I would read it again. The plot is great and the twist at the end was definitely unexpected.
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