Book Review-The Kite Runner
Book Review: Varshini Beejam from team Pravaah
Book Title: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
As always, Khaled Hosseini’s books carry an irony in their nature : an unputdownable book but won’t let you read without having to pause because of the story it carries. He is going to make you feel things that you didn’t know existed.
Published in 2003, this debut book of his is based in Kabul, Afghanistan narrating the journey of a boy in the difficult times when the Russian took over Afghanistan followed by the Taliban’s rule. Few worshipped the Taliban, others were heartbroken seeing the devastated state of their beloved nation. You will see that even those who are heartless can’t fully escape the guilt of their deeds. Don’t you have something that you wish had never happened ?
“It wasn’t meant to be,.. or, maybe, it was meant not to be.”
There are different relations that are addressed in this book – Father, son, friendship, relationship, well-wishers, bullies what not ! The narrator is the protagonist himself, telling us about his life when he is older. A typical narrative, for a remarkable story.
You get to experience the rude ways of the Russian, the torture of the Taliban and the amiability of the American. That soreness in the time when I didn’t even exist made me twinge. The fact that Kabul, a beautiful city with kites, gardens and snow, with citizens who heard our Hindi music and ‘mazed themselves with our films, are now under the Taliban again, did not help.
‘The Kite Runner’ will make you rethink some policies in your life, questioning if you had left any stone unturned in your efforts to make it this far.
“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
Despite all these, ‘Zindagi Migzara’.. Life goes on.
This book is going to make your Thanksgiving long, for you have so many things to be thankful about 🙂