What is the statute of limitations for guilt? Gentle, accurate, sometimes almost painful and very emotional novel by the Afghan Khaled Hosseini «The Kite Runner» is a detailed answer to this question.
What is the statute of limitations for guilt? Gentle, accurate, sometimes almost painful and very emotional novel by the Afghan Khaled Hosseini «The Kite Runner» is a detailed answer to this question. Two Kabul boys — Amir and Hasan, master and servant, a wealthy Pashtun aristocrat and a poor outcast Hazara — are connected from birth: both lost their mothers early, both were raised by the same woman, both cannot imagine a world without the other. But their destinies diverge: Amir betrays his named brother and, miraculously escaping the dangers of civil war, takes refuge in America; Hassan remains in Afghanistan.
However, the flight across the ocean does not relieve the feeling of guilt, and the adult Amir returns to his homeland to pay off the debt to his friend and regain the right to self-respect at a high price…
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, Phantom Press, 448 p.