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WARS -and terrorism above all- ALSO AND ESPECIALLY AT CHRISTMAS, HAVE SHATTERED OUR BALLS....thousands of innocent deaths, entire peoples and civilizations destroyed, mass deportations from Lebanon and Syria, THE systematic creation -by superpowers, war industries, and financial and oil lobbies- of puppet republics where hatred has begotten more hatred...but let us not forget the collapse that [and has had] its own Republic in the process, where according to popular opinion, literary venues from the Arab and Persian world are considered doorstops on par with outdated diaries...AND I WILL THEREFORE ANALYZE SOMETHING THAT DOES JUSTICE TO THIS ARS NOVA that has developed in the MIDDLE EAST: KITE RUNNER aka THE KITE RUNNER, a very engaging international bestseller by Khaled Hosseini from 2003, with characters that leave a strong impression on the mind, tackling evergreen social themes in an environment as fascinating as it is dramatic, like recent Afghanistan. In the aura of imminent tragedy, there is room for the following happy combination: the values on which man questions himself (courage, loyalty, betrayal, friendship, guilt, family) interpreted in a context "distant" enough to offer us Westerners a journey into a different and fascinating civilization, but also psychologically "close" and present in European social life, think of Charlie Hebdo, Brussels Airport, the Nice promenade, Berlin Station [even the arrest of the responsible murderer, recently caught at the gates of Milan].
In the book being analyzed, although some oversimplifications due to a historiographical defect or an excess of craft, the narrator stigmatizes the "villain" who admires Hitler since childhood and then becomes a Taliban leader (hiding his cold blue eyes behind Lennon-style glasses) would make one smile, but the collective astonishment at the iconicity given to us by the image captured here cannot be excluded! Some phrases of the soldiers of evil also evoke famous passages from "western" films.
The modernization of the father Baba-aghà’s figure in the distant 1975 is debatable, wishing that his country might never be governed by the mullahs in the future: a clear statement certainly compelling to us Westerners, accustomed for years to consider Bin Laden's beard as the authentic flag of Afghanistan.
The sturm und drang that draws the events of Amir, Hassan, Ali, and Baba himself before and after the great revelation, with great trepidation, provokes dismay, anguish, wonder, amazement... and chapter after chapter the heartbreaking side of the protagonists' lives emerges from the torpor, giving light to emotional lanterns that are close to extinguishing....porcazzoide!
Khaled Hosseini uses themes cleverly lightened in the overall tableau, refining their edges to characterize the characters that traverse them, giving them, in fact, few nuances: when a contradiction appears within one of them, the whole story is shaken: it is the case of Jadeh Maywand on which travel the aghà and his sohrab. Sanaubar, who is visually spared from the execution [at the gallows] of her daughter Soraya, is a portrait of a tenacious and determined woman who dispels the suspicions of sexism leveled at the badass writer from Kabul!
Kites...on them wander the memories of time in all existing colors.
CHERRY ON THE CAKE:
the badass Isabel Allende recommends it...it’s up to you!
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