Well i have to admit that i wasn't very thrilled about reading a novel about Afghanistan, besides i hate to read something i was "forced" to. The first few chapters went really slowly, i wasn't enjoying it that much but then the story started to get compelling. Not only the plot was getting better and better but it also shed some light in what Afghanistan used to be, since i always thought that the country was a pit hole full of Talibans and people shooting each other (i know this is a very narrow minded point of view but this is what i got from the media, and besides i couldn't care less about a country thousands of miles away from ours), this led me to research more about pre-Russian invasion of the country and get a little more in touch with the culture, right now i feel sympathy to what that people lost in the course of the years.
Returning to the main plot of the book, i can ramble about at will since we all read the book and there will be no spoilers. I think that the fact that Hassan and Amir were brothers was a juicy one, this was the next step in their strong bonds, and the way the novel comes full circle at the end is really a work of art. The novel is so full of symbolism and every action seems to be balanced by another one along the course of the story, i don't know if this was on purpose or it is only Khalled way of writing, but he did a wonderful work.
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