The review of the Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini, the author of the book was born in Afghanistan, in 1965 . In 1980 because of the invasion of soviet of soviet army Hosseini’s family moved to San Jose, California. And he earned a Medical degree in the University of California-San Diego’s School of Medicine in 1993. He began to wrote his first novel The kite Runner in 2001 and finished in 2003.He has never expect the great success of the book, from now on the book has been translated into 36 languages and 600million copies have been sold in the world wide .
The story started with describe the subtle relationships between two Afghanistan boys, Amir and Hassan, Amir’s mother died because of giving a birth to him and Hassan ,the son of Amir’s family’s servant ,his mother ran away from him when he was first born, the similar of no mothers made these two boys the best friends, best friends? but not always, although Hassan believed in Amir for no reason but just the loyalty for friends, and because of a promise Hassan made to Amir ,He even sacrificed himself to protect Amir’s kite, in another hand Hassan ignored Hassan’s effort and looked him down. For Amir’s jealous of the love his father gives to Hassan, Amir framed up the innocent Hassan and forced him to leave the house . In 1980 because of the invasion of soviet of soviet army Amir’s family moved to America and started a new life. A few years passed, Amir received a call from an acquaintance and be told that Hassan is his half blood brother and died because of guarding the house which Amir’s family left in Afghanistan. For the reason to pay back to Hassan, Amir goes back to Afghanistan and search for Hassan’s only child left in the world.
The book itself is full of culture, friendship, betrayal and loyalty. For no doubt this is the best English book I have ever read, but beyond of story I also find that it’s a typical American style heroic novel. In the novel all the bad guys are described like not only the bad guys but the evil, communist and Taliban are all related to indecency , rap , murder and America as described as a heaven a way out. Maybe the reason for the great success in America is because the book finally helped American find a good reason to starts the war these days.
Peng Lei