This book is told in flashback mode, where the man Amir is telling his life story. It starts off with the description of Amir and general things like his family, friends, and the city where he lived. He talks about childhood memories with his best friend Hassan, like going on vacation to climbing the apple tree in their backyard. Amir talks about his rocky relationship with his father and why Hassan is his best friend, even if he is their servant's son. Every year their city named Kabul holds an annual kite festival where all the kids come and participate to knock each other's kites out of the sky. Amir wanted to make his father proud and was determined to win this year with the help of Hassan. As the day comes Amir is really excited and in the end wins. As he goes to show his prize to his father, Hassan disappears into a dark alley. Amir goes and tries and to find him, only to see that he is being harassed by the neighborhood bullies. Instead of the being there for him, Amir just watched the entire scene unfold in front of his eyes since he was. Amir runs back home and once Hassan comes back, their friendship starts to spiral down. The things was it that Hassan knew that Amir has seen the entire scene and didn't help him. But it wasn't that Hassan didn't want to talk to Amir, he still stayed loyal to him. The problem was that Amir didn't want to talk to Hassan.
A few months later, Hassan and his father come out crying and say that they are leaving the house. When asked the reason, they don't come out and state it directly. Right then and there, Amir realizes that Hassan had known all along, that he was there that night and had told his father about what happend. After they, left the story fast forwards many years, to Amir and his father moved to America, trying to start a new life. That is when Amir falls in love and decides to get married. Just a few years later Amir's father dies and he goes to Kabul to fix his mistakes with Hassan. However, when he went there, he learned that Hassan and his wife were dead and their son Sohrab was in an orphange. He also had an oppturnity to meet up with his father's old friend Rahim who told something that changed Amir's life forever. It turns out that Hassan was Amir 's illagitamate brother. Those news shocked Amir as he felt like his entire life was a lie. Then, he knew that to make up for all he had done, he needed to find Sohrab and take him back with him to America. After a lot of searching Amir finally gets a hold of Sohrab. After a few days in the hotel, Amir is finally legally allowed to take Sohrab back with him to Calirfornia where they live.
By the time they reach home, Amir's wife Soraya has made all the preparations they needed for Sohrab to permanently live there with them. Soraya and Amir decided to adopt him legally since he was Amir's nephew. However, the first few months in America he doesn't say anything until one day he finally ends up smiling at Amir, which to him was the first step for Sohrab to finally become a part of their family.
Theme: So many topics are touched in this book like friendship, decisions, future, family, trust, loyalty, and secrets. However the overall theme would be: keeping secrets can be one of the fundamental reasons of a broken relationship. This is shown when Amir kept something from Hassan and they never spoke again and when Amir's father didn't tell him and Hassan that they were brothers.
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