Book 1 - ´Drachenläufer` (Kite Runner)

The Book ´Kiterunner` is about a small boy from Afghanistan called Amir Jan and its father is a rich political man. He has a very good friend called Hassan who is the son of the butler of Amir's dad and with him, Amir was taking part in a lot of kite competitions, but one day, after they won the competition and Hassan ran to catch the kite which they won, Amir saw what he should never have seen. Since this day, Amir went out of the way from Hassan. Weeks later, Hassan and his dad left Amir's and his Dad's house, and months later, the Russian and the American army move into Afghanistan, and Amir and his Dad left Kabul, the city where they live, too. They moved to America, where Amir's Dad get cancer and died after the marriage of Amir and a beautiful Afghani-girl. 15 years later, Amir got a call from a good old friend from his dad, and he went back to Afghanistan to pick up Hassan's son from an orphanage, because Hassan and his wife were killed by rebels. But before he was able to see the boy, he got into very big trouble with the Taliban, which are making the government now after the war between Russia and America. But Hassan's son can help Amir and Amir got to know that Hassan and he were brothers, and Hassan's son, called Suhrab, is his nephew. Because of the happenings from September 11th, 2001, the Americans started to bomb Afghanistan, and the Taliban had to leave Kabul and two other Afghanistan cities. After Suhrab tried to kill himself, he didn't say anything, but after a garden party from Amir and his wife, Suhrab is living at their house n America now, they take part in a kite competition, and Suhrab was starting to smile and ran for catching the kite, which he won.

I really enjoyed reading the book, it is written very well. It is written in first person and it shows very well the feelings and thoughts of the main character. The narrator describes his environment and the people in a lot of details so you can imagine how everything looks like and that is very impressive because the story of the book is very sad.