Khaled Hosseini’s stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy’s parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid ’90s.

Khaled Hosseini is one of the world’s well-known novelists who has written a number of worthwhile novels including “A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Mountain echoed and Kite runner.” I have read his all novels and the kite runner is the nearest to my heart. However, each sentence of Khaled Hosseini’s writing describes an imginary picture of Afghanistan.

As in this book the story moves around two boys Amir Agha and Hassan who are childhood friends. They run kite and enjoy each moment of the life together. Hassan’s father is a servant of Amir’s garden and used to live with them in the house. This was a time when Afghanistan was in its young age and people around the country are blessed with a peaceful and content surrounding.

Apart from this, the worthy time doesn’t last for long and the Russian army invaded the beautiful nation in 1979 and the streets of Kabul wake up with the sound of gun-fire. Soon the country becomes a hard place to live in since the occupancy of Russia results in the creation of Taliban who even make the situation worse.

Nevertheless, soon Taliban forbid a large number of things in the battlefield Afghanistan such as to wear Ijab, keep beards and they insist to honor Taliban and participate in the war. Aftermath, Amir’s father becomes to compel to leave his native place with his son and they move towards Pakistan later they escaped to America as refugees. Hassan and his father as well left Kabul and moved to the natives places of Hazara.

After a number of years Amir received a call from Pakistan from Raheem khan his fathe’s business partner and friend. Raheem khan summons him in Pakistan’s and tells him, “Hassan was your half-brother.”Amir gets a shock at first and asks Reheem khan for the explanation.”Hassan was not the servant’s son rather he was your father’s boy from servant’s wife and to hide this, he never expressed his love for Hassan.”Raheem explained.

Beside this, Raheem Khan exposed the secret to Amir that your best friend Hassan was shot dead by Talibans along with his wife. You should go in Afghanistan and find Hassan’s son to take him in a safe place.

Accordingly, Amir decided to move to Afghanistan after a tall time. He goes there and experiences a completely different Afghanistan.

That does not look like the place they used to run kites, climb pomegranate trees and watched moves in cinema halls. It seemed as a black and white picture of 19340s. Everything looked strange to Amir. Thus, Amir struggled to find the Hazara boy (Hassan’s son). He got some clues; the boy was in the custody of Talibans. He put his life in risk and went to them where he met with Asif who had been an antagonist of Amir and Hassan in childhood. They both fought in order to level one of their previous loads. Amir succeeded to find a way and took his nephew and ran away from Afghanistan towards Islamabad, Pakistan. There they both stayed in a hotel for some days. Amir managed a visa for his nephew. They both moved to America.

When they reached in America, Amir’s wife welcomed them. Interestingly, the boy became a marginal man for some time, later he felt well among them.

Hence, once in an evening Amir took the boy to a grassy field and they took kites along with them. Amir ran the kite and asked his nephew to assist him to cut off some kites of nearby people. Amir found the boy very expert like his father Hassan, as they used to run kites in Kabul in kite mela.

The book was an interesting read. I enjoyed reading it and felt within the book every time. Therefore, I recommend this beautiful piece to my readers so that they do not miss the opportunity to interact with a master piece of Khaled Hosseini’s fiction. Start reading it from today.

The writer is a student at University Law College, Quetta and based in Turbat.