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A review by kamrynkoble
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5.0
This book broke a very important record: it made me cry the same amount of times as Gone With the Wind. Four times, to be exact. Except this book did it in two hundred pages where Gone With the Wind took a thousand.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner is poignant, beautiful, and important. It's the first book I've read about the Middle East, let alone Afghanistan. Hosseini handles the political unrest with a grace that compliments the story rather than overtaking it. Even though I'm still far from knowledgeable, I feel as if I got an intimate glimpse of a people group that I was missing, aided by research I did for my literature class studying this book.
Some pacing and structure issues reminded me that this is Hossein's first book, but he has such a clear image of humanity and how to portray it through the written word. It turned me into a weepy mess regardless of how well it fit into a fiction structure mold.
This book is one that will stay with me for years to come. There's still so much of its world left foggy and mysterious, which makes it all the more delectable. My inner fangirl longs for a series. My inner literary critic understands why it ends here. All I can say is, well done.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner is poignant, beautiful, and important. It's the first book I've read about the Middle East, let alone Afghanistan. Hosseini handles the political unrest with a grace that compliments the story rather than overtaking it. Even though I'm still far from knowledgeable, I feel as if I got an intimate glimpse of a people group that I was missing, aided by research I did for my literature class studying this book.
Some pacing and structure issues reminded me that this is Hossein's first book, but he has such a clear image of humanity and how to portray it through the written word. It turned me into a weepy mess regardless of how well it fit into a fiction structure mold.
This book is one that will stay with me for years to come. There's still so much of its world left foggy and mysterious, which makes it all the more delectable. My inner fangirl longs for a series. My inner literary critic understands why it ends here. All I can say is, well done.