Book: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini.
Publisher: Bloomsbury (www.Bloomsbury.com/khaledhosseini)
ISBN:978-9-7475-9488-8
The story is set in the beautiful, strong, snowcapped mountains of Afghanistan. The story starts around 1970, before the invasion by Russia.
It is the story of Hasan and Amir, two kids in prewar Afghanistan, flying kites, running around in the meadows and doing all the fun filled things that two young boys would do. Amir, the son of a well to do land owner and Hasan the son of their servant. And yet the friendship being strong.
Then happens an incident which no kid will speak of and yet a lot is implied in the silence.The friendship takes on a stubborn silence from one and a devious, plotting maliciousness on part of the other.
Then comes the Afghan invasion. All of Afghanistan is thrown into turmoil. The social fibre is torn asunder. Families flee the incoming armies. Amir and his father emigrate to America, Hasan lives on, their mutual secret alive.
Years later, Amir receives a plea for help, a letter from the country of his childhood, Afghanistan. It is a plea to save an orphan from an orphanage run by the dreaded fundamentalists in Afghanistan. What is in that letter that forces Amir to return to a war torn Afghanistan? What does he try to find in the county? Will he find his lost childhood or will the shamed secret again overpower him?
Read this powerful novel to find an awesome undercurrent of emotions and a visual treat of a rugged mountainous country.
Author: Khaled Hosseini.
Publisher: Bloomsbury (www.Bloomsbury.com/khaledhosseini)
ISBN:978-9-7475-9488-8
The story is set in the beautiful, strong, snowcapped mountains of Afghanistan. The story starts around 1970, before the invasion by Russia.
It is the story of Hasan and Amir, two kids in prewar Afghanistan, flying kites, running around in the meadows and doing all the fun filled things that two young boys would do. Amir, the son of a well to do land owner and Hasan the son of their servant. And yet the friendship being strong.
Then happens an incident which no kid will speak of and yet a lot is implied in the silence.The friendship takes on a stubborn silence from one and a devious, plotting maliciousness on part of the other.
Then comes the Afghan invasion. All of Afghanistan is thrown into turmoil. The social fibre is torn asunder. Families flee the incoming armies. Amir and his father emigrate to America, Hasan lives on, their mutual secret alive.
Years later, Amir receives a plea for help, a letter from the country of his childhood, Afghanistan. It is a plea to save an orphan from an orphanage run by the dreaded fundamentalists in Afghanistan. What is in that letter that forces Amir to return to a war torn Afghanistan? What does he try to find in the county? Will he find his lost childhood or will the shamed secret again overpower him?
Read this powerful novel to find an awesome undercurrent of emotions and a visual treat of a rugged mountainous country.
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