Posts Tagged ‘Khaled Hosseini’

Brothers Karamazov-Kite Runner Parallels

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Having just finished The Kite Runner, parallels between it and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, which I just finished listening to a BBC radio dramatization of, come to mind.
In The Kite Runner (2003) the reader along with the protagonist, Amir, eventually finds out that the household servant boy, Hassan, is not merely a servant of a [...]

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The Kite Runner

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I just literally minutes ago finished reading Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. The book is one of the many reasons why I read: time/space travel. In this novel, you are transported to Afghanistan before and after several coups and government take-overs in the volatile land. It feels so foreign, but yet so enchanting. One [...]

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