Thursday, 7 December 2006
The Kite Runner
I was given this book as a present, and had missed all the hype about it. Bizarre thing was I had just read a novel about a boy growing up in Libya (In the Country of Men, by Hisham Matar), and here I was immersing myself in the story of a boy growing up in Afghanistan. The eras were similar, and the post 9/11 themes of clashing cultures were also similar.
What intrigues about The Kite Runner are the imperfections of the narrator, the central character. In his search for absolution and atonement, Asir sees his life come full circle. The author makes full use of a number of chiasmus structures, and to this end they are sometimes a little predictable… and yet the Hollywood fluffy ending is only hinted at. The story doesn’t end with a fully-fledged smile, but there is a hint of one starting.
The shocks in the plotline also take away from some of the predictability of the narrative – the of a central character
What intrigues about The Kite Runner are the imperfections of the narrator, the central character. In his search for absolution and atonement, Asir sees his life come full circle. The author makes full use of a number of chiasmus structures, and to this end they are sometimes a little predictable… and yet the Hollywood fluffy ending is only hinted at. The story doesn’t end with a fully-fledged smile, but there is a hint of one starting.
The shocks in the plotline also take away from some of the predictability of the narrative – the of a central character
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