Kite Runner, The by Hosseini Khaled

Author:Hosseini, Khaled [Hosseini, Khaled]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Suspense, Mystery, Fiction - General, Boys, Male Friendship, Coming of Age, Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Betrayal, Social classes, Kābol (Afghanistan)
ISBN: 9781594480003
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2004-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

That was also the year that Soraya and I began trying to have a child.

THE IDEA OF FATHERHOOD unleashed a swirl of emotions in me. I found it frightening, invigorating, daunting, and exhilarating all at the same time. What sort of father would I make, I wondered. I wanted to be just like Baba and I wanted to be nothing like him.

But a year passed and nothing happened. With each cycle of blood, Soraya grew more frustrated, more impatient, more irritable. By then, Khala Jamila’s initially subtle hints had become overt, as in “Kho dega!” So! “When am I going to sing alahoo for my little nawasa?” The general, ever the Pashtun, never made any queries--doing so meant alluding to a sexual act between his daughter and a man, even if the man in question had been married to her for over four years. But his eyes perked up when Khala Jamila teased us about a baby.

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