THE KITE RUNNER

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Although written four years ago, I had not heard of The Kite Runner until just a few weeks ago. It is a #1 New York Times bestseller and a San Francisco Chronicle best book of the year.

The Kite Runner is a moving portrait of modern Afghanistan. One reviewer said, “This is one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years. All the great themes of literature and of life are the fabric of this extraordinary novel: love, honor, guilt, fear, redemption.”

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, the son of a diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980. He lives in northern California, where he is a physician. The Kite Runner is his first novel.

I agree that “parts of The Kite Runner are raw and excruciating to read, yet the book in its entirety is lovingly written”