10/11/06
The Kite Runner
Last night I finished Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. My mind is filled with questions I don't have time to research right now. The book, which tells the moving story of two half-brothers across the last four decades of turbulent Afghan history, is somewhat autobiographical. Hosseini says in the introduction that the father character in the book is based on his own father. But the rest? Did he adopt his half-brother's son after the father was murdered by the Taliban? Did he also almost die at the hands of a sociopathic Taliban official? I doubt it, and I think the important truth in the book is that the outlines are true -- Afghanistan really has been suffered horribly under rule by different outside groups that had their own murderous agenda. What a beautifully told nightmare!
The Kite Runner was published in 2003 by Penguin and is available at www.amazon.com.
The Kite Runner
Last night I finished Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. My mind is filled with questions I don't have time to research right now. The book, which tells the moving story of two half-brothers across the last four decades of turbulent Afghan history, is somewhat autobiographical. Hosseini says in the introduction that the father character in the book is based on his own father. But the rest? Did he adopt his half-brother's son after the father was murdered by the Taliban? Did he also almost die at the hands of a sociopathic Taliban official? I doubt it, and I think the important truth in the book is that the outlines are true -- Afghanistan really has been suffered horribly under rule by different outside groups that had their own murderous agenda. What a beautifully told nightmare!
The Kite Runner was published in 2003 by Penguin and is available at www.amazon.com.
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