The Kite Runner by khaled Hosseini

Great book! I am away from books for at least three months due to extreme busyness in office and at home but I managed to complete this book by sleeping late at night and awaking very early in the morning. It was really a pain, I won't do this exercise for anything but I just got hooked to the book. It was worth all that pain. :-)

The Kite Runner is a story of Amir, son of a very rich businessman of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Kite Runner is Hassan, a servant-cum-friend of Amir. Hassan is son of Ali who was given shelter by Amir's grandfather. Ali served Amir's father, serving Amir was duty of Hassan. He served Amir well, amazingly in fact. Hassan never disappointed Amir and always thought Amir agha (sahib) is a friend of his but Amir didn't think the same for even a second. In some very dramatic political conditions, Amir had to leave Afghanistan. Ali and Hassan couldn't come with them. But some very unfortunate incidents in Afghanistan brought Amir back after all twenty-two years. Hassan's son was waiting for him...

Novel has pre-taliban background of Afghanistan, mostly. After reading the novel, I came to know really good details about Afghanistan, its people, culture and economy. I also came to know a special type of muslim community, Hazara and their relations with muslim (shia, sunni) families in Afghanistan. A little description of Taliban's effect on Afghanistan is also provided by Mr. Hosseini.

Overall, a very thrilling, moving, genuine story written in really wonderful way. 9/10 from me.