Amir lives in a mansion while Hassan and his crippled father live in a mud hut on the grounds. The servants’ children often becoming their playmates if not exactly friends a close friendship would require a more equal status in life. The servants who serve their employers for many years tend to live in or near their employer’s home and tend to have kids of their own who grow up along with the boss’s children. “For you, a thousand times over”Īmir is the son of a wealthy, influential Afghan father, and he grows up alongside the son of their servant with whom he becomes best friends. Wild horses couldn’t drag me there now, but I imagine back then it was a nice place and time to grow up in (depending on your station in life there I guess). I am not saying it is an accurate picture of the real Kabul at the time, just that the image and the imaginary atmosphere seems very real. I have never been to Afghanistan before (I imagine very few of us have) but this book paints such a vivid mental image of life in Kabul during the early 70s (before the Soviet deployment of their Army there) that I feel as if I have some kind of first-hand experience. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini starts off really great, it does not deteriorate into crap but I want to stress that it starts off really great. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.Ī sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. Narrator: First person limited, from Amir’s point of viewīook Summary: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Theme: Memory and Past, Politics and Society, Betrayal, Redemption, Violence Setting Place: Kabul (Afghanistan), Fremont, California (United States), Peshawar (Pakistan)
Major Characters: Amir, Hassan, Assef, Bába, Sohrab, Soraya, Rahim Khan
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