Book Review - Arya S

                THE KITE RUNNER
The Kite Runner is a gripping and emotional story of betrayal and redemption. It tells the story of Amir and Hassan, two best friends, as good as brothers. The two boys lived in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. This year they were planning to try harder to win the local kite fighting competition which is a popular Afghan pastime and this is Amir's one hope of winning his father's love. But soon a war breaks in Afghanistan and the country becomes an extremely dangerous place to live in. When the Russians came, Amir and his father moves to California, where Amir becomes a successful writer. As the story builds to the climax ,the guilt and the wish to correct the wrong becomes quite evident. Amir awakens from his comfortable life in Northern California to Afghanistan and rescues Hassan's orphaned son.
The story is fast paced and hardly ever dull. The book completely got me into another world and I could actually see the sad wars that were happening. Hoseini's writing finds a great balance between being clear and yet powerful .But I think the best bit about the kite runner is its sense of fate and justice, of good overcoming evil in the end,though it may sound too cliche.