My favorite bookstore is my sister’s house...yes people, after she got married, I stopped frequenting those road side book bazaars and overpriced bookstores. On my last trip there, I saw a book called Kite Runner and reading the reverse, I realized it was by a first time author, an Afghani immigrant to the US. I was curious. I took it home. Started reading it...
The first few chapters are forgettable, but if you persevere and make it to the next few you’ll never regret it.
What appealed to me about the book was its realism. It’s about real people that made real mistakes, and tormented themselves over them, until fate brought them redemption.
But although I enjoyed the book thoroughly and couldn’t put it down, I’ll have to be honest. It was full of biases. Biases against the Taliban and religious idealism. Surprisingly, those biases added to the realism of the book…made it REAL.
I would recommend this book for cynics and those with secrets and skeletons in the closet. And of course the literati with nothing better to do too.