The Kite Runner the debut novel of Khaled Hosseini's traces the life of a young boy, Amir, as he faces the challenges that confront him on the path to manhood. Kit Runner, the story circles around relationships especially, testing friendships, finding love, cheating death, accepting faults, and gaining understanding.
The story is set in the 60's in Afghanistan. Amir enjoys a life of privilege that is shaped by his friendship with Hassan, his servant's son. Amir lives in constant want of his father's attention, feeling that he is a failure in his father's eyes. To change the dynamics of the relationship, Amir takes on the weight of living up to unrealistic expectations and places the fate of his relationship with his father on the outcome of a kite running tournament.
Kite Running a popular challenge in Afghanistan is a game in which participants must cut down the kites of others with their own kite. Amir wins the tournament. Yet just as he begins to feel that all will be right in the world, a tragedy occurs with his friend Hassan in a back alley on the very streets where the boys once played.
This moment marks a turning point in Amir's life, esp a memory that he seeks to bury by moving to America. There he realizes his dream of becoming a writer and marries for love but the memory of that fateful day will prove too strong to forget. Eventually it draws Amir back to Afghanistan to set right all the wrongs that began that day in the alley and continued in the days, months, and years that followed.
A thousand splendid suns is another great novel by Khaled Hosseini.
The story is set in the 60's in Afghanistan. Amir enjoys a life of privilege that is shaped by his friendship with Hassan, his servant's son. Amir lives in constant want of his father's attention, feeling that he is a failure in his father's eyes. To change the dynamics of the relationship, Amir takes on the weight of living up to unrealistic expectations and places the fate of his relationship with his father on the outcome of a kite running tournament.
Kite Running a popular challenge in Afghanistan is a game in which participants must cut down the kites of others with their own kite. Amir wins the tournament. Yet just as he begins to feel that all will be right in the world, a tragedy occurs with his friend Hassan in a back alley on the very streets where the boys once played.
This moment marks a turning point in Amir's life, esp a memory that he seeks to bury by moving to America. There he realizes his dream of becoming a writer and marries for love but the memory of that fateful day will prove too strong to forget. Eventually it draws Amir back to Afghanistan to set right all the wrongs that began that day in the alley and continued in the days, months, and years that followed.
A thousand splendid suns is another great novel by Khaled Hosseini.
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