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The Kite Runner

 Khaled Hosseini

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Awards

Winner of BookScan Gold Awards 2007.
Winner of Reading Group Book of the Year 2007.
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hamid55 rated this book  
 

how do u read it

5 months ago...

ClaudeNougat rated this book  
 

Heart-wrenching and extraordinary evocation of a place (Afghanistan) and its tragedies...tragedies that bring us to the very center of the human condition. Great literature!

9 months ago...

lida.rouabah rated this book  
 

Brilliantly written - so full of emotion and heart wrenching episodes that it really was difficut to read through the tears. If you've only seen the film, do yourself a favour and read the book - an experience difficult to forget.

2 years ago...

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Zebra commented:

I couldn't put it down. A Thousand Splendid Suns, equally brilliant if you haven't already read it.

2 years ago...

nancybon14 commented:

Agreed.

9 months ago...

Velvet27 rated this book  
 

This wasn’t an easy book to read. Well written and structured, although I didn’t really warm to the main character at all. He was self indulgent in his self pity at times, and very wrapped up in his own head. The hardships and what happened in and around Afghanistan was brutal and heart breaking and something that I hope to never understand for myself. Essentially a story of redemption, although it didn’t really feel like that in the end, as the characters that most deserved some happiness didn’t get it. Hard reading

1 year ago...

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Book Crazy commented:

how did i know you would know that the graphic novel is out..... i have never read a graphic novel before so i'm not sure what to make of them .....are they a good way to read of are they books that cut off bits from the novel

1 year ago...

julez commented:

I have read The Kite Runner....an absolutely loved it....you just have to see movie of same name.... didn't like 2nd book as much...

1 year ago...

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Banjo rated this book  
 

This was a heartwarming sensitive story. When I read it I cried throughout the book because of the friendship, betrayal and truma that was brought into this boys life.....The struggles he went through and being forced to move to America.....Banjo

1 year ago...

springrain rated this book  
 

It was a wonderfu book - just could not put it down. I cannot add anything to Shirley's comment calling it a powerful book. This is one to be remembered and thought about.

1 year ago...

harryknuckles rated this book  
 

This is a fantastic book on so many levels. The story of friendship, betrayal and redeption, of a childhood brutally cut short, of a country torn apart by war, of living as a foreigner in a strange, but safe, land.

It is beautifully written, is absorbing, thought provoking and informative. You will identify with the characters and live every moment, every action, every reaction with them. The depiction of the childhood friendship of Amir and Hassan is captivating and the descriptions of beautiful sections of the book, like kite flying, are set against horrors of war such as escaping from oppression in an oil tanker. It is heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. It will pull all the emotional (kite) strings.

A truly wonderful, wonderful read.

2 years ago...

Caroline McLean rated this book  
 

I cried and cried after reading this story. I agree Lida... it was beautifully written it puts the plight off Afghanistan in a whole new light.

2 years ago...

Shirley Littlejohn rated this book  
 

Exceptionally powerful story of one man's plight and determination to "make things good again" despite every possible, imaginable obstacle and horror which is unveiled along the way. This book churned my stomach at points and kept me up all night I was so gripped by Amir's journey. At the same time the guilt and remorse which drove him was an inspiring account of a man determined to find peace and to give back of his life in return.

2 years ago...


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