Book 27 of my 2020 Reading Challenge
read from April 1 - 7
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Summary (via Goodreads)
published 2003
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
My Opinion
5 stars
Books like this are why I love reading. It was recommended to me in the "what? you haven't read this yet? you HAVE to!" way that is the best part of finding a fellow book lover. The bonus in this case is the recommender was my 16 year-old daughter who read it for school and had to get her own copy so she would have it to loan out to everyone she's recommending it to.
It was the kind of book you get utterly lost and absorbed in, where you close the book and have to take a moment to reorient yourself to your surroundings because it's shocking not to be in the settings of the book.
It ripped my heart out in the best possible way. Because that's another characteristic of a book lover - you have to be a little sadistic in the way you look for your emotions to be toyed with and your heart stomped on.
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