In 2001, 38-year-old narrator Amir received a request from an old friend of his father Rahim Kahn to return to Afghanistan. He gets the opportunity to put something straight. Amir knows it's a day in 1975 when his life got a completely different twist. Amir was at that moment 12 years old.
This will be told immediately from Chapter 2 to the reader.
Amir is the son of the wealthy Baba: his mother died at birth and Amir is being fed by the same few as his poor boyfriend Hassan, who lives with them with his awful father Ali. His own mother ran away when Hassan was very young: she was far too beautiful and too young for the old Ali and she left him for another man. The physical handicap for Hassan is that he has a haze lip: he always seems to smile.
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Amir can study because his father has taken a job at a gas station. In their spare time, they act in second-hand goods that they buy one day cheaply and sell the other day with some profits. But it is mainly a matter in which Afghans meet each other. In one of these markets, Amir meets a beautiful girl named Soraya, it is love at first sight and he can’t stop thinking about her. So he and his father insist to ask her hand in marriage in the traditional Afghan way. When they get invited to her house, Amir and Soraya get to know each other. Soraya’s mother support’s their marriage, and of course, the strict father also gives his blessing to the marriage. It will be a huge party in 1990 according to the rituals of the Afghans. While Amir is increasingly acquainted with writing, Soraya wants to become a teacher. The marriage is very romantic at first, but when they find out children are inferior to Soraya's infertility, it becomes a bit more business, but there is love between them. Amir's first novel is issued by an American publisher and he deserves a nice penny because the reviews are very good. In America, before 2001, he can speak freely about his book. Meanwhile, Baba has died of the effects of lung cancer. Which left Amir …show more content…
He asks him to come to Pakistan. Amir decides to go because his father's friend has told him to put something straight. In addition, he has a boundless admiration for the man. In Pakistan, Khan tells what has happened in the meantime. He was living in Baba's house and had taken Hassan and Ali as servants. That's a blow in Amir's face. But the story goes on. Hassan got a wife and raised a son. To Hassan's great surprise, at one point his mother, who was very old and old, returned to her son. She had lived in the house and was fond of her grandson Sohrab. She was a lovely grandmother to him. Later on she died. But from Rahim Khan's words now it appears that the old Ali had been infertile and that Hassan was the child of Baba. Which means Hassan is a half brother of Amir. It's a great shock for Amir, but he can now better understand his Baba's response at the incident with the watch and money under the matress. The bad news goes on: Khan has also come into a phase of terminal illness and he had to warn Amir now. Hassan and his wife got killed by the Taliban and their kid was left as an orphan. Khan claims to have friends in Pakistan who are willing to adopt the boy. But Amir must first get him out of the