Book: The Kite Runner

This is my second book by Khaled Hosseini after the wonderful A Thousand Splendid Suns and it didn’t disappoint. The Kite Runner is an account of the life of Amir, the son of a merchant in Kabul Afghanistan. The book covers his life from Afghanistan to America and back to his hometown after a few decades to deal with his unresolved matters from the past. Saying more than that will be equal to the act of spoiling and disservice to the book and future readers, so I stop here. But the book is another gut-wrenching and moving work by Khaled Hosseini.

Tired of business and self-help books, I had decided to pick up novels to stir things up. Well, after the two emotionally charging novels by Hosseini, I think I am ready to go back to the mundane books for now.

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.” 

“There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life… you steal his 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.” 

“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” 

“For you, a thousand times over”