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The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini


Date- 22 June, 2017
Title- The Kite Runner
Author- Khaled Hosseini
Published on- May 29, 2003
 Genre- Novel 
 


Review-The novel is quite enchanting in the sense that it will have the reader weeping over the joy as well as the tragedy in it.The plot is set in post colonial Afghanistan on the onset of the Cold war .The son of a local feudal lord and his hazara slave are the main protagonists of the novel .The feudal lord,who is honorably mentioned as Amir Agha by his subordinates is a westernized man and is vastly alienated by the conservative Afghan society .His son,very much devoid of his fatherly cordial affection,grows up with the son of their hazara slave,named Hassan who also happens to be the illegitimate son of Amir Agha .The boy was very much passionate about kite fighting and won the local first prize after a series of attempts with Hassan being his associate,but the string of the kite was unfortunately torn in the process and the kite flew away.Hassan went to fetch the kite for him and was brutally raped by Assef,a local bully who always tried to humiliate the kids of the locality,the boy saw Hassan getting raped and due to his own guilt he tried to remain away from Hassan all the time and falsely accused him of stealing his father's watch.Hassan and his father felt very dishonored in the event and left Amir Agha's house for Bamian,the ancestral home of the Hazara people.Meanwhile,Sov­iet troops occupied Afghanistan and Amir Agha along with his son fled to USA via Pakistan where they started a new life.His son became an eminent writer and later on married Soraya,the daughter of an Afghan general living in the USA.The boy,now a matured man was impotent and as a result the couple remained childless.In the mean time,Talibans came to power in Afghanistan and Hassan along with a lot of Hazaras were massacred by them for being adherents of Shia Islam.The junior Agha came to know that Hassan had a son back in Afghanistan and felt the moral obligation to take him with his family.He visited Afghanistan and adopted Hassan's son after going through a lot of perilous and difficult situations and took him to USA.Hassan's son was quite introvert and when he was taken to a local park to attend a kite fighting competition,he smiled for the very first time after being adopted and made the main protagonist nostalgic.

The novel is truly a magnificent one because it is emotionally very touching as well as it has successfully been able to address a lot of social problems in Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini successfully portrayed the atrocity of radicalism that has been effective in Afghanistan for a long period of time.Besides,the segregation and torture inflicted upon the religious and ethnic minorities in Afghanistan has also been depicted successfully. Apart from all these,the principal success of Hosseini has been picturing the pure heartfelt affection of two young and innocent human hearts which continued subjectively even after some accidents.


-Rassiq Aziz Kabir

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