It should have been a time of glory for Afghans. Instead, the war raged on, this time between Afghans, the Mujahedin, against the Soviet puppet government of Najibullah, and Afghan refugees kept flocking to Pakistan. That was the year that the cold war ended, the year the Berlin Wall came down.
It was the year of Tiananmen Square. In the midst of it all, Afghanistan was forgotten. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Copyright Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Amir views coming to America as an opportunity to leave his past behind. Although Amir and Baba toil to create a new life for themselves in the United States, the past is unable to stay buried.
When it rears its ugly head, Amir is forced to return to his homeland to face the demons and decisions of his youth, with only a slim hope to make amends. Ultimately, The Kite Runner is a novel about relationships — specifically the relationships between Amir and Hassan, Baba, Rahim Khan, Soraya, and Sohrab — and how the complex relationships in our lives overlap and connect to make us the people we are.
Uploaded by mmmmmn on May 31, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. The first edition of this novel was published in , and was written by Khaled Hosseini. The book was published in multiple languages including English language, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a story about a father and a son named Hassan and Amir from Kabul with a guilt theme as the violence against Hassan.
Amir is the son of a wealthy businessman from one of the ruling Pushtoons caste. The Kite Runner got popularity and became the top best selling book for more than two years in U. People loved the book and gave positive feedback although it is a controversial story. The novel shows the inside issues of Afghanistan based on religion, politics, and ethnic values. You will surely love the story and the hidden message behind the novel. It is a fiction story of love and affection between two friends.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. By Khaled Hosseini. Publication date As the boys grow apart and start their own lives, "The Kite Runner follows the transformation of Afghanistan from a peaceful and isolated country to a living hell. Even as Amir has immigrated to America and thinks that he has left his old life behind, a call one day brings him back home to confront his past.
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan to a diplomat father, Hosseini and his family received political asylum and immigrated to the United States in Hosseini was a physician living in northern California at the time"The Kite Runner" was published. Hosseini's childhood memories of pre-Soviet Afghanistan, his own brief friendship with a Hazara servant and his family's immigrant experience in the United States inspired him to write the novel.
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It is the author's first novel, and has topped bestseller lists around the world thanks to its eye-opening and truthful representation of life in the Middle East during the rise of the Taliban regime.
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