Book Review: Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Afghan-American Author, Khaled Hosseini wrote this masterpiece called ‘The Kite Runner. The book was published by Riverhead in 2003. He stopped his physician career and switched to the writing industry when his creative masterpiece hit in the bestselling. The sad stories that the author tells in his books have attracted many people into sending money and other humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and even some started adopting Afghan kids.

The novel is about an extremely powerful story of two young boys Amir and Hassan who grew up in Afghanistan. When the civil wars stormed the country, Amir and his dad had the privilege to move to America where they started their new life.

In their days In Afghanistan Amir never returned the cordial and honest friendship to his friend Hassan. And since Karma is real, his new life in America was not rewarding. He experienced all sorts of curses; the loss of his father, the infertility and many other misfortunes.

On the other hand, Hassan remained in the hell of Afghanistan where the wars were ravaging. He tasted the bitterness, the pain, and the hardship of the Taliban. Later on in the drumbeat of confusion and fights, they killed him, his father and wife.

The story depicts many things, from culture clashes among Afghan immigrants to America, the discrimination among the Hazaras and Pashtun and their religious sects of Suni and Shia. It is deeply sad how the wars desperately buried the Afghanistan people into the harshness of poverty and the state of wallowing.  During the political chaos in this country, the Ph.D. holders turned out into beggars, lame people started selling their artificial legs to get the ends-meet.

There are many things that Somalia and Afghanistan are in common, the Wars, the poverty, the religious sects, ethnic discrimination and many other things. The creative writing skills of the author is what makes the book moving, you will never put it down.

I got the chills so many times toward the end of this book. It completely blew my mind. It managed to surpass my high expectations and be nothing at all like I expected. Or in Newspeak "Double Plus Good." The book contains wisdom, betrayal, cruelty, and redemption, if you enjoy reading such themes; this is the right one for you.