Paper Details

Name: Manjit Kaur Ghuman
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 1-4

Khaled Hosseini, the Afghan born American novelist and physician is a compassionate storyteller. As a child, he read a great deal of Persian poetry as well as Persian translations of novels ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Series. His precious childhood memories of Afghanistan during the pre-Soviet era and his personal experiences with the Hazara people of Afghanistan led to the writing of his first novel The Kite Runner. The novel captured contemporary and historical themes depicting the skill of Hosseini in character study. It is a political chronicle as well as a deeply personal tale. The Kite Runner is a beautifully told story of two boys growing up in Kabul during the final days of monarchy in Afghanistan and the first days of the shortlived republic. Despite being in the same household and having shared the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds. Amir is the son of a prominent wealthy man, a Pashtun, whereas Hassan, the son of Ali, Amir's father's servant is a Hazara, a member of a shunned ethnic minority. Their fates and their intertwined lives reflect the tragedy in the world around them .When the Russians invade Afghanistan, Amir and his father flee for a new life in America. Amir thinks he has escaped his past yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.