The Kite Runner
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Bindung: Taschenbuch
EAN: 9780747573395
Ausgabe: Export Ed
ISBN: 0747573395
Label: Bloomsbury Publishing
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing
Anzahl Seiten: 340
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004-05
Herausgeber: Bloomsbury Publishing
Studio: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Produktbeschreibung:Amazon.co.uk:The
Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California,
The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English,
The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park.
--Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca
Amazon.com:In his debut novel,
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try.
The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.")
Some of the plot's turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that
The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon.
--Gisele Toueg
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Dies ist eines der poetischsten Bücher, die ich seit langer Zeit gelesen habe. Der Autor ist jung, erst 43 Jahre alt heute und als er Kite Runner schrieb, erst 38. Das erwähne ich, weil ich eine derart erzählte weise, poetische und intelligente Lebensgeschichte einer afghanischen Familie von einem so jungen Mann geschrieben etwas ganz Besonderes finde.
Die Geschichte: Die Kindheitsgeschichte eines Jungen, der mit seinem wohlhabenden Vater in einer gehobenen Nachbarschaft in Kabul aufwächst. Die Mutter ist bei seiner Geburt gestorben. In einer Hütte auf dem Gelände lebt ein treuer alter Diener mit seinem Sohn Hassan, der fast gleich alt ist wie der Junge Amir, von dessen Leben diese Geschichte eigentlich handelt. Die Jungen verbringen ihre Kindheit gemeinsam, jedoch werden die Standesunterschiede immer deutlich, wenn andere Kinder oder Festlichkeiten einen Platz einnehmen im Leben des Amir, dann plötzlich ist Hassan unwichtig. Hassan selbst weiß, auf welcher Stufe er ...
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This book is poetry that will punch your stomach so hard your eyes will water. Personal stories are plotted together with historical atrocities. Every page is well written, chapters' endings are so dense you won't be able to put the book down. A great read.
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Eine tragische Geschichte einer Kinder Freundschaft zwischen Amir und Hassan in Afghanistan und deren Folgen. Ein einziger Tag und ein schicksalsträchtiges Erlebnis verändern alles und verfolgen Amir noch Jahre später. Er lernt mit seiner schrecklichen Schuld zu leben, aber vergessen kann er nie. Als erwachsener Mann bekommt er dann die Chance sich von seiner Schuld zu befreien.
Ein einzigartiger Blick in das alltägliche Leben des damaligen friedlichen Afghanistan}s und des brutalen, kriegerischen und grausamen Lebens dort heute. Ich fand es sehr faszinierend über dieses Land mehr zu erfahren, von dem man eigentlich nur Kriegsnachrichten im Fernsehen hört. Die Geschichte Amirs hat mich sehr berührt und den Wunsch in mir geweckt, mich mehr mit anderen Sitten und Ländern zu beschäftigen!!! Auch vermissen Sie nicht Tino Georgiou's topseller--The Fates--Ich empfehle es allen zu lesen!!!
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Hassan is Amir's dearest friend and is the son of Amir's father's servant who belongs the minority Hazara community in Afganistan. Amir and Hassan's close friendship is put under strain by an unthinkable event which happens on the day of the annual kite flying tornament. Amir's and Hassan's childhood friendship is destroyed as a result of fear and jealousy.
The story is of Amir, a novelist who lives in California whos life story is narratied by himself where he talks of his loss, redemption and guilt filled relationship with his country of birth. Amir returns to war torn Afganistan to rescue Hassan's orphaned son but is met with personal and political obstacles which leaves the reader in suspences and wanting more.
This novel is a tear jerking, heart warming insite into the relationship between freinds, family, country and culture. Hosseini really knows how to keep the reader guessing and wanting more, as a first novel it is dripping in emotion and bitter sweet ...
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Dieses Buch gehört zu den besten Büchern, die ich in den letzten Monaten gelesen habe. Die Geschichte über die beiden Jungen, die gemeinsam in Afghanistan aufwuchsen, ist sehr bewegend und weit weg von einer kitschigen Erzählung. Ich hatte viel Spaß beim Lesen und kann es nur empfehlen!
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