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List Price: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781594480003
ISBN: 1594480001
Label: Riverhead Trade
Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2004-04-27
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Release Date: 2004-04-27
Studio: Riverhead Trade
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Summary: WONDERFUL!!!
Comment: This book is an easy read thanks to the gifted talents of writer Khaled Hosseini. It is a moving and gripping story that is hard to put down, and one I would highly recommend!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing!
Comment: This book was so well written. Shocking, surprising, emotional to say the least, risk taking, adventure, strong, strong emotions. I read this not knowing anything about the book and could nott put this book down. Get it! Read it! You will not be dissapointed in the least. Then read his other book, A thousand splendid suns! We want More Khaled!
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Summary: A Beautiful Story
Comment: To start out, this is my second time reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I thoroughly enjoyed it the first time, and enjoyed it just as much on the reread, finishing it easily in a couple of days. For those of you who have not read the book and/or seen the movie, The Kite Runner is about Amir, a young boy growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan. Amir lives a privileged life, as his father is a well-connected businessman. However, Amir's mother died during his birth, and his father is somewhat distant - Amir feels like he is unable to please him. He finds friendship with Hassan, the son of Ali, the family's servant.
In Kabul, one of the favored activities was kite fighting. Boys would fly kites with strings coated in glass fragments and try to cut the strings of competitors' kites. When a kite was defeated, others would try to "run" the kite and catch it when it drifted back down. Amir sees the kite competition as a way to finally win the approval of his father, and he teams up with Hassan, a great kite runner. When Amir is successful, his glory fades when he fails to help Hassan out of a terrible situation. The shame and guilt he feels bear down on him through the course of the story.
Eventually, Amir's idyllic life experiences a major change. His father is out of favor with the new government, so the two of them flee Afghanistan, eventually ending up in the Bay Area. They become part of a growing Afghan community of people who were movers and shakers now toiling away in menial jobs. As time passes, Amir marries and pursues his dream of becoming a writer, but he is not satisfied. Then his old friend, Rahim Khan, suddenly summons Amir back to Afghanistan with a mission, offering him the opportunity for redemption.
The Kite Runner is a beautiful story. Hosseini's descriptions paint a vivid picture of what Afghanistan used to be like before it was ravaged by decades of war. Amir is a strong character, as he wants to do what is right, but also wants to gain the approval of his father, two things that lead to conflict. Even so, the story is about so much more than Amir.
The Kite Runner is a book that I highly recommend. Also check out Khaled Hosseini's other novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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Summary: An excellent STORY
Comment: It's an excellent STORY that merges fact and fiction expertly while invoking deep human feeling. I initially heard about this book via a BBC broadcast and bought it off Amazon. It was a great buy - the story itself reminded me of reading John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" when I was a teenager. I later bought the movie as well but was utterly disappointed. Key areas of the book are left out including the bathroom scene (readers will know to what I am referring).
Recommendation: Buy the book - forget the movie.
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Summary: A powerful story of friendship, betrayal, war and Afghan culture
Comment: This is probably one of the most IMPORTANT books I've read in a long time, mainly because of the knowledge it has to offer about Afghanistan and its culture. The story, however, speaks for itself, and I would not want to downplay the writing by focusing on the way it opens the readers eyes as to what is and has been going on in Afghanistan, as it does much more than that. Some will tell you this story is about Afghan culture and the destruction of its beauty, while others will tell you it is a story of friendship or sin and redemption. Really, though, it is a story about contradicting forces: the beauty of a culture and the ruin of its country, the gravity of sin and the meaning of atonement, the sincerity of friendship and the devastation of its loss. The brilliance of this novel is not just Hosseini's ability to bring a culture to life, but his ability to depict the human condition at its best and worse simultaneously, working with opposing and disconnected ideas to finally bring them full circle.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The timely and critically acclaimed debut novel that's becoming a word-of-mouth phenomenon...
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