Sinossi
Si dice che il tempo guarisca ogni ferita. Ma, per Amir, il passato è una bestia dai lunghi artigli, pronta a inseguirlo e a riacciuffarlo quando meno se lo aspetta. Sono trascorsi molti anni dal giorno in cui la vita del suo amico Hassan - il ragazzo dal viso di bambola, il cacciatore di aquiloni - è cambiata per sempre in un vicolo di Kabul. Quel giorno, Amir ha commesso una colpa terribile. Così, quando una telefonata inattesa lo raggiunge nella sua casa di San Francisco, capisce di non avere scelta: deve partire, tornare a casa, per trovare il figlio di Hassan e saldare i conti con i propri errori mai espiati. Ma ad attenderlo, a Kabul, non ci sono solo i fantasmi della sua coscienza. C'è un mondo violento, assurdo e sinistro, dove le donne sono invisibili, la bellezza è fuorilegge e gli aquiloni non volano più.
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- Pagine: 398
- Data di uscita: 17-07-2018
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Finished this book about a month ago but it's taken me this long to write a review about it because I have such mixed feelings about it. It was a deeply affecting novel, but mostly not in a good way. I really wanted to like it, but the more I think about what I didn't like about the book, the more i Leggi tutto
This is the sort of book White America reads to feel worldly. Just like the spate of Native American pop fiction in the late eighties, this is overwhelmingly colonized literature, in that it pretends to reveal some aspect of the 'other' culture, but on closer inspection (aside from the occasional ti Leggi tutto
Due to the large number of negative comments I've received, including death wishes, I've added the following request:Please do not take this review (or yourself) too seriously when reading it. I became what I am today at the age of twenty-nine, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 2008. What
WOW! This book was beautiful, exquisite. This book follows the story of a rich boy named Amir who grows up playing with his buddy Hassan who is the son of his father's servant. This story is one of friendship, betrayal, love, redemption, and family. There were so many different twists in this book th Leggi tutto
Sad stories make good books. "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975." There are two types of books, usually, that makes one feel like there are no words to describe the experience: They are either unbelievably detrimental, or exce
Khaled Hosseini - image from The Washington Post This is a wonderful, moving novel set in the Afghanistan of the early 70’s and of today, about a young boy and his friend growing up in Kabul. Amir desperately wants his father’s approval, but Baba is not quick to give it. He is a rich man, brimming Leggi tutto
It's been a while since I've been this frustrated with a main character...
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