This is one of those book I always intended to read but never got around to. I decided the graphic novelization was better than nothing. It is the story of Amir, a Pashtun, and Hassan, a Hazara, two young boys in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hazaras, are an ethnicity looked down upon by many Pashtun Afghans. Hassan is the son of the servant to Amir's father. Together the boys participate in kite fighting, where the object is to cut the strings of the competitors' kites. Hassan is a kite runner, the one who chases after the kites that are cut free. Years later Amir, now living in the U.S. learns that Hassan is really his half brother. Hassan and his wife have been killed and Amir returns to Afghanistan to retrieve Hassan's young son. While this story is somewhat depressing it's not as much of a downer as Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns.
No comments:
Post a Comment