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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I loved this book! It is so beautifully written. I couldn’t put it down…I definitely wanted to shirk my responsibilities and read it cover to cover in one sitting (Didn’t happen though I’m sorry to say!). By the end I was in tears. I wasn’t sure I was going to like this one, but I LOVED it. Can’t wait to read his other work (A Thousand Splendid Suns). ( )I read this two years ago. An interesting story describing what was a brutal life for the Afghani, but what unfortunately became the norm. Well written, though a bit too deus ex mechanica at times. Still a great book that explores many issues; friendship, classism, loyalty, the ability to persevere, love. I was quite disappointed by this book. After all the fave reviews... But why, you'll ask, it's such an uplifting story! Well, all I can say is that this was one of the most predictable books I've come across in the last years. The Afghan boy Amir, nice but not all sympathetic and his poor sidekick Hassan (from the Hazara minority) - characters we know from every children TV series known to man. A cowardly act of betrayal follows that has to be redeemed in the remainder of the novel - well well, never heard that before... What a tear-jerking story of loyalty and friendship in duress. I have to admit it's quite well written and never boring, but I couldn't bother finishing it... A very powerful and emotive book. It's not without flaws but the story is told so well that they can be forgiven. Couldn't put it down. 0.257 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0747566534, Paperback)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.") Some of the plot's turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon. --Gisele Toueg (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:51 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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