Kosseini, Khaled–THE KITE RUNNER
Posted in Afghanistan, Growing Up, Pakistan on Jun 3rd, 2009
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid, overcast day in the winter of 1975,” Amir tells us in the opening lines, when he, a successful novelist now living in Fremont, California, receives a phone call from his father’s former business partner, Rahim Khan, now in Pakistan. Rahim had stayed behind in Afghanistan when Amir and his father escaped to America in 1981, and he is now dying. An intimate part of the family, Rahim has long been aware of a childhood betrayal committed by Amir, one which had catastrophic consequences for others and Hosseini, which has tormented Amir for his entire life. “There is a way to be good again,” Rahim Shah tells him, and Amir immediately sets off for Pakistan to see him for the last time.
