The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

5/5 Stars

Publish Date: February 24th 2009 (first published May 29th 2003)

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Pages: 337 pages

"When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal a wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing."

-The Kite Runner

The novel follows the tale of a 12 year old Amir in Afghanistan, 1975. Desperate to win his fathers approval, love and affection, he enters the local kite competition with the servant son Hassan. The unravelling of serious events that happen causing a major shift in their relationship, the Russian invading and Amir and his father fleeing to America. This is a tale of redemption as Amir tries to make things right again, returning to Afghanistan under the rain of the Taliban.

At first I found it slow therefore hard to engage in it but I don't know what happened, everything clicked into pace and I picked up reading it with such momentum and loved it. I don't think this was like any other book I have chosen to read before. Overall this book was wonderfully written and very heartbreaking to read!

I'm going to leave this review with another quote from the book.

“For you, a thousand times over”

-The Kite Runner