Kite Runner

Unabridged CD audio Book:  By Khaled Hosseini

Have you heard a good book lately? 

 The Kite Runner was reccommended to me as a good book. 

The author Khaled Hosseini is the reader for this audio book, the accent in his voice sweetly enhances the story and sweeps the listener comfortably from the present into the past and into another land far away. 

 The story is about the life of two boys in Afganistan, and is told through the eyes of Amir and what happened to him throughout in his life because of this bond with his friend in Afganistan named Hassan. 

This is not the type of story I would have chosen on purpose. What I mean is, that I usually peruse the shelves for something familiar, more in touch with what I think I would like to hear.
The Afganistan of today is not a place I would care to venture my curiousity. But from the eyes of Amir, a child in the Afganistan of yesterday, this seemed a very special place, the Afganistan of the past.

This story was so captivating, haunting and heartbreaking, I sobbed over many passages and thought I really knew the feelings and situations of these boys. I did not realize it was fiction until after I had heard all the CDs, and actually picked up the CD case to read the excerpt and story discription on the back. In my mind the author and reader was Amir, and this was his story. I was grateful for the discovery that the story was a work of fiction.
Still, I know in a way, it is real.

“Kite Runner” also showed me a span of life, of a people in a world today I did not want to know anything about. Now I am changed, by a work of fiction.

Reviewed by: Deb Munsell