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The Kite Runner by: Khaled Hosseini List Price: £7.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £4.69 You Save: £3.30 (41%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780747594888 ISBN: 0747594880 Label: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: December 17, 2007 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Studio: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sales Rank: 1255 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling. The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - MovingThis book is so powerful and moving, one can only be moved by the storyline of Hassan and Amir and what trauma's both of these character's endured, will keep you entapped until the end. Rating: - Top readHas to rate as one of the best novels I have ever read. Couldn't put it down. Would be a perfect book for discussion at a book club. The story twists and turns, just like the kites - I plan to buy DVD, let's hope it doesn't disappoint. Rating: - Un-putdownableI loved this book. Thought provoking and informative, it gives an insight into a world most of us can only guess at, at times disturbing, at times hopeful but always engaging, and portrays the best and worst of mankind's nature - betrayal for self-interest, cruelty, denial and then loyalty in the face of deceit and great compassion. The characters remain true to their social background and personal ambitions throughout and their individual fate is realistic. Wonderful. A book with so much to say that it can be read more than once. Rating: - One of the best books I've ever read!Since reading this book, it is the first present that springs to mind for all of my friends. Whatever ones' favourite genre, one can't help but fall in love with this book. It's heart-wrenching but beautifully written. Not only is the friendship that develops between two boys from completely different classes fascinating, but also before reading this, my perception of Afganistan was frankly very ignorant, based on the current political scenario. I had no idea what a rich and fascinating cultural heritage Afganistan had. I can't wait to read "A Thousand Splendid Suns", his next book and I'm sure I'll re-read this one again. Rating:  - Worth a ReadHaving watched the film, I was reluctant to read The Kite Runner when it was nominated in my last reading group. It was an average film, in my humble opinion; far too much crammed into the allotted time and yet still too long. Nontheless, the book had been bought for me as a present and I am never one to turn up my nose simply because "I just didn't fancy it". After all, you can miss some real gems this way. Amir and Hassan are a young pair of scallywags in Afghanistan in the early 1970s. They have a seemingly unbreakable bond until one day Amir is faced with the opportunity to show his loyalty to Hassan in one bold, brave swoop. He fails miserably and as such the friendship breaks down. What follows is the break down of the country ... Read More: |
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