The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

January 16, 2005

The Kite Runner opens many windows - not only on an unfamiliar culture, but on the painful complexity of class differences, the ambiguities of father-son relationships, the lived life of the immigrant or (in whatever context) the outsider or the stranger. Moreover, it confronts head-on a moral conflict that has plagued human beings through the ages: the problem of betrayal. Is it relevant to what we think of as education, to the choices we make in teaching, to the insoluble or the unutterable? Some of us think so and hope to address these questions, troubling and provocative as they may become.

"War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than.in times of peace."
– Khaled Hosseini

Portrait of Khaled Hosseini courtesy of Wikipedia.

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