The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Reviews

Book Itself... As you can see the book has the main character pictured on the font. It is often used as a text for a level English literature, but a great read for anyone that loves a bit of history, Afghanistan, kite running or fiction! The Plot... I will try not to give too much away, the story involves a twelve year ...  Read the complete review

The Kite runner - Khaled Hosseini's The kite runner is a sensational read. Had l not had this book bought for my birthday, l would never have read this book. In reading this book it has opened my eyes and quite possibly broadened my scope of reading material. This is the first novel, written by Khaled Hosseini who was ...  Read the complete review

If you only buy one book in the next year, make it this one. This is a life-changing read. I picked up the book having read nothing for a long time. It was recommended to me by my Mum and a friend, so I thought I would give it a go and it has now become my favourite novel. The Kite Runner is a beautiful and painful story about life in ...  Read the complete review

The Kite Runner tells the story of a young boy, Amir, and his childhood friendship with Hassan, the son of his father's servant. To summarise, Amir lets something bad happen to Hassan, in order to win the respect of his father, and feels guilty about it. For political reasons, Amir and his father flee to America, and start a new life there. ...  Read the complete review

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is one of the most heartbreaking books I have read in a long time. Hosseini manages to capture the insecurities, hopes, loves and fears of a person so acutely that you feel like you don't just understand the Amir, the main character, but you have experienced the highs and lows with him. It was highly ...  Read the complete review

I thought I would fall asleep reading this book , but instead of falling asleep I cannot sleep because I can't stop reading this book. Reading this book, I feel I wasn't in my bedroom reading, but I was in Afghanistan, seeing, experiencing something I haven't experienced before. Amir and Hassan, best friends who was separated not only ...  Read the complete review

Perhaps unusually, I read The Kite Runner after I'd read A Thousand Splendid Suns, and even more unusually from what Ive read of other reviews, I found it to be a less satisfying read than A Thousand Splendid Suns. ~~So whats it about?~~ The story is about two boys growing up in Afghanistan before and during the outbreak of ...  Read the complete review

The Pushton society is one of the most complex societies. There are as much stories of their insurmountable hospitality as are of what they call "honor killing". No one could describe the society better than Khaled Hosseini. Being a pushton myself, I was really surprised by how he has described it in his book "The Kite ...  Read the complete review

An excellent piece of lietrature in which a beautiful portrait of life in war torn Afghanistan. A book that delivers history with a literary brilliance. It follows the tale of Amir, the son of a a rich Afghani businessman and his best friend Hassan, the son of his father's servant. They grow up like brothers and the book follows Amir's tale after ...  Read the complete review

The Kite Runner One of the best books I have read all year and a truly wonderful story. The Kite Runner is a 2003 book written by Khaled Hosseini and was his debut novel. It tells the story of a young boy called Amir. He is growing up in 1970's Afghanistan and faces many trials and tribulations. At first he lives a fairly ...  Read the complete review

This book is written by Khaled Hosseini and it is his first novel, although there has been another published since then. The kite runner follows the story of Amir, an Afghan boy and his family over a significant period of events during the lives of him and his family/friends. They live in the Wazir Akbar Khan district of ...  Read the complete review

The Kite Runner was published in 2003 by Riverhead Books. This is the first book which Khaled Hosseini wrote. It is about a boy called Amir and his relationship with is father who is a wealthy merchant. It tells of how his friendship develops with Hassan who is playmate and servant to him. The book explores trust and later in the book ...  Read the complete review

In 1970s Kabul, Amir and Hassan are best friends; Amir is the first word that the slightly older Hassan spoke and the two grew up in each other's pockets. Yet Amir is the son of a wealthy man and a Pashtun, whereas Hassan is the son of his servant and a Hazara. As they grow up, the differences in their background threaten to separate them, ...  Read the complete review

I came upon this book by sheer chance. I originally wanted to purchase the Richard & Judy recommended book, A thousand Suns, but did not have enough money so settled for this cheaper book. Reading the back it usually not my cup of tea reading about a different culture, i prefer my thrillers, however i was pleasantly surprised by this book and ...  Read the complete review

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is an absorbing tale of life in Afghanistan. It tells the tale of Amir a young boy from a fairly wealthy family in Afghanistan. This is Afghanistan in the 1970’s before the Taliban and before the Soviet invasion. Amir lives in a nice house with his father (his mother died shortly after childbirth) and in the ...  Read the complete review

Something very diffrent to the usual novel I read, this was picked up by me after being chosen by my online book club, Babbling Books, as one of our two book choices to read that month. Telling the story of the lives of two young men growing up in Afghanistan, the book focuses on friendship across the boundaries of Afghanistanic ...  Read the complete review

This is the debut novel by Khaled Hosseini, a Californian doctor who was born in Afghanistan and fled to the US seeking political asylum in 1980, thus you can be sure he knows he stuff regarding the early years of his lead character. The book is told from the perspective of Amir. Amir's mother died in childbirth and he grew up thinking ...  Read the complete review

I bought the book because four people recommended it highly in a matter of days, they didn’t give me any details, only told me that I had to read it, period. The name of the author, Khaled Hosseini, meant nothing to me, not surprisingly, as The Kite Runner is the debut novel of an Afghan whose family received political asylum in the USA in ...  Read the complete review

This is a truly remarkable story of a boy growing up in Afghanistan. It follows the story of him and his best friend as they are growing up, the Taliban taking over the country and the later story of his adult life. I don't want to give too much away, but the story is so movingly written you feel the author has put much of his life experiences ...  Read the complete review