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The Kite Runner
In his debut novel, The Kite Runner,
Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are
able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account
of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also
developing characters whose
heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers
long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his
first try.
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. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness
budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its
things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the
night.")
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