“There is a way to be good again,” Rahim Shah tells him, and Amir immediately sets off for Pakistan to see him for the last time. An intimate part of the family, Rahim has long been aware of a childhood betrayal committed by Amir, one which had catastrophic consequences for others and which has tormented Amir for his entire life. Rahim had stayed behind in Afghanistan when Amir and his father escaped to America in 1981, and he is now dying. “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid, overcast day in the winter of 1975,” Amir, in the opening lines.Ī successful novelist now living in Fremont, California, Amir receives a phone call from his father’s former business partner, Rahim Khan, now in Pakistan. It was also VOTED the Reading Group Book of the Year for 20. Note: The Kite Runner was WINNER of the South African Boeke Prize in 2004.
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