"For you a thousand times!" ——— this is the most loyal commitment of an Afghan boy to another Afghan boy.
Afghanistan, once a beautiful country, has experienced a series of coups, foreign invasions, and years of domestic war since the 1970s.
The Kite Chaser is the first novel by Afghan-American writer Khaled Husseini.
The novel depicts Amir, a 12-year-old rich Afghan young master, who is in love with his servant Hassan. However, in a kite race, Hassan chased the final kite for Amir, allowing Amir to win the game, but in the process, Hassan was raped by the sociopath Assef, who witnessed all this, but he did not come forward by nature cowardly.
For this reason, Amir blamed himself, suffered, and could not face Hassan, so he framed and forced Hassan away, and he fled to the United States with his father in the civil war.
After more than twenty years of age, Amir resolutely returned to his more war-torn homeland of Afghanistan, returned to his long-lost hometown, and embarked on the road of atonement.
In the process, he discovers his father's secret, Hassan's origins, and the more brutal nightmare repeats itself——— Hassan's son Sohrab becomes Assef's plaything.
This time, the cowardly Amir did not flinch, he chose his inner mission, chose to be brave!
One thought becomes a demon, one thought becomes a Buddha!
The novel is interlaced with ingenious and astonishing plots, telling the story of friendship, affection, betrayal and redemption between two Afghan teenagers, expressing not only indictments of war, but also profound reflections on ethnic and religious issues in Afghanistan.
This is a heartbreaking story and a poignant history of a nation!
I wish Afghanistan an early exit from its nightmare.