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Loading... The Kite Runner (original 2003; edition 2004)by Khaled Hosseini
Work detailsThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
Good work by the author impressed me and also it's a good historical fiction book....:) (  ) shofichoudhury | May 3, 2013 |  Good work by the author impressed me and also it's a good historical fiction book....:) ( ) shofichoudhury | May 3, 2013 | Very inspirational and moving story as it details the story of a boy who grew up with faults that are relatable to everyone's. It also taught me a lot about Afghanistan culture and the historical events that happened in that place. It was overall very interesting and pulled me into the story. I would definitely reccommend it. (  ) AZhangIA | Apr 29, 2013 | "The Kite Runner" was a book which I wasn't sure about reading at first. I wasn't really sure what to expect as for as the content of the book. When I started reading I was somewhat confused by the book and where it was going. But as I got farther into it, I really got myself engaged. I could literally feel characters' emotions at times and could understand their actions. It was a very well written book and the plot has many twists in it. Usually, plot twists can be seen but not guessed for me. But in this book, some things came as a complete shock and just made me want to read more. Overall it was a very immersive book that is a must read. ( ) ssulibhaviia | Apr 21, 2013 | “The Kite Runner”, by Khaled Hosseni, is an amazing, and touching story which revolves around the life of a young Afghani boy named Amir and his relations with his father and best friend Hassan. A beauty of the novel is that it shows how this one little boy goes through love, hate, betrayal and regret. As this all takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan during the period of the Soviet Russia invasion, along with political tension, there is also the cultural/social tension between classes causing many of the strains on Amir’s relationships. All in all, the story is wonderful, and will no doubt make your heart ache as it has done to mine. ( ) SVaratharajanIA | Apr 21, 2013 |
 The Kite Runner is about the price of peace, both personal and political, and what we knowingly destroy in our hope of achieving that, be it friends, democracy or ourselves.  At times, the book suffers from relentless earnestness and somewhat hackneyed descriptions. But Hosseini has a remarkable ability to imprison the reader in horrific, shatteringly immediate scenes... The result is a sickening sensation of complicity. This powerful first novel, by an Afghan physician now living in California, tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Is contained inHas the adaptationHas as a teacher's guide
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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 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:50:06 -0500)
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
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