Summary
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
First Edition
Hasan, an illiterate Afghan boy, has the uncanny ability to predict where a paper kite will land. Thirty-eight-year-old Amir, Hasan's closest friend, talks about his life's journey, which leads from Kabul to Peshawar in Pakistan, and then to San Francisco. Parallel to the story of boyhood friendship that is destroyed by fear, jealousy and cruelty that surpasses even the political one, there is a story about modern Afghanistan, an incredibly unhappy country that was started by the Soviet occupation and then finished by the Taliban regime. Amir's sense of guilt that haunts him whenever he remembers his destroyed city becomes unbearable, and when he returns to save Hasan's orphan, a plot develops that captivates with both tension and sensitivity...
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