The Kite Runner

I am still in a trance after finishing this awesome book by Khaled Hosseini..........The very honesty with which the narrator depicts his sins is just enthralling .....the story is about two boys of afghanistan....one belonging to the local bourgeois while the other belonging to the socially ostracized hazaras.although one is just a servant of the other still a subtle feeling of friendship develops between them.But although the hazara Hasan is extremely loyal to the narrator Amir,yet their friendship was always tormented by the complexities of Amir's character.......and finally they are compelled to separate from each other by an irony of fate, and afghanistan enters a chaotic age under the Roussies(Russians) and subsequently under the infamous Taliban rule . Amir and his dad has to flee to America and about two decades later Amir returns to afghanistan to atone for the almost unpardonable sins commited by his spineless past self. The later half of the stories revolves around his struggle for redemption.

A unique story , written with a poignant style, will attract the reader's attention in its sincerity and (un)flamboyant nature........at the end the reader is so awed by the down to earth realism story that he might as well believe it to be a true story! I suggest every bookworm to read this awesome novel...........I an bet a million bucks that you won't regret !!!!

(I m so impressed by Hosseini's Dickensian fashion of writing that I have already bought his second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns)