76th Blog - "Life is a prison when you are in love alone"

It does not matter now, he thought. Nothing does. He will close his eyes and everything will disappear. The world. The tears. The pain. That was what he hoped for, that was what he believed in, that was what he had never tried before. Because if he tried and it didn’t work, he would have nothing left to have faith in. Because if he closed his eyes and the pain were still there, he would be broken. he would be destroyed, Ruined, Reduced and much more Crippled.

But today he was ready to take that risk. Today he wanted to stick to that little hope that everything might be if not fine, but at least okay. Today he wanted to close his eyes. So what if there was a good chance that he might be knocked down and broken into pieces. How did it matter if nobody cared? How did it matter if even he did not care?

Suddenly he noticed her picture on the table. It was an old one and one of the beautiful one. he realized that he didn’t remember when it had been taken. Five years ago? Six? Maybe more old. He didn’t know anymore. he didn’t care anymore. he didn’t want to know. Should he close the eyes now, he wondered. Let himself be forced to the world of illusions, to the world where he remembered the pictures, the dates. Where he actually didn’t need pictures to look into her eyes. Where he just did not need any pictures. Because She and only she is there.

He wanted to close his eyes. he really did. he hoped to see her in the world of his fantasies. he wanted to ask so many questions. he wanted to talk. he wanted to stay silent. he wanted to feel her presence. To feel her love. To feel her. To be with her. he wanted to stay there. he wanted to close his eyes and never open them. No, he didn’t want to die. he only wanted to close his eyes, to feel her presence, to feel himself in her arms, to feel her warm embrace and love. he wanted to dream. To hope. To live with her.

It was her birthday today. It was her first birthday after that car accident. It was her first birthday after the car accident that had changed their lives. It was her first birthday after the car accident that had killed her. It was the first birthday. Damn it! He thought. It is the first birthday when she is not with her to cut the cake. It was the first birthday when she was not with him to enjoy the day.

He didn't ask “why” anymore. The time of questions had long passed. he did not cry anymore. Not in the day at least. And he did not smile anymore. All he wanted was one simple thing – to close his eyes, to disappear, to vanish. All he wanted was to live, was to live only with her.

Should I close the eyes? he asked. Silence. In an utter silence. Of course, who would have going to replied for his own soul question? 

 

He was all alone. Wrapped by the blanket of loneliness. Stuck in the darkness of grief. Losing herself in an agony of silence. He was alone. And She was alone too, Somewhere. Maybe in another world, people says that exist afterlife. Maybe in the same one. 

 

Love need not to end like this one, he thought. At-least not in this way. But She was not there. he knew that. he just was not ready to accept that truth. 

 

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. A moment later he's smiling. He sat on the bench under an old oak tree. In his imagination he sat down next to her. he didn’t say a word. In his imagination neither did she speaks a single word. But at that moment of life did they exactly need some words to say ?? No they didn’t need words. They needed Just each other. And all they had to do was to close their eyes at the exact same time. And they did.

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Dhitendra

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75Th Blog - “A Thousand Splendid Suns" By Khaled Hosseini

I'm always eager to find out and read those books, that relates with Social causes and yet described and narrated in a typical fable style. In the case when the Author is already critically acclaimed across the globe, It must be essential to read those books to find out the content that works as smash hit from the perspective of Author. 

 

Often most of writer completed their books in a very short span of time, apart someone takes an year sometime more than an year to complete a single book. At a single time they only engaged with a single book, results in world-wide plaudits. And it is very good to read an author, whose books was already critically acclaimed and read by masses.

After completing “The Kite Runner” By Mr. Khaleed, I was waiting for his next book to release. “The Kite Runner” comes in a category of few books, that capture and portray the relations. It is one of the beautiful crafted novel and unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant. Since this book is already so popular that need not any description.

When I come to the book “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, as per my perspective this book is good but not good as “The Kite Runner”. While as per remarks of many good reviewer world-wide, this is better than what the Author portrait in his last work. I purchased this book after reading the summary that was on back cover page. But the story was totally different from that. Sometime reader feel bore due to very wide unnecessary description in the book.

This book is divided into four parts, with a focus on Mariam in the first part, continuing Laila in the second and fourth, and the relationship between the two women in the third part.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is set in Afghanistan from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. It is the story of poor, uneducated women Mariam who have to endure the hardships of life. The story begins with an abusive sentence “She was five years old when she heard the word HARAMI”, “HARAMI” that normally used to call for street people. This novel narrates the horrors and terrors that a lot of women have gone through during certain period in Afghanistan, the war torn country, and the narration through the lives of two woman Mariam and Laila. Going through All kinds of Physical abuse of hitting, kicking and slapping, brutal beating, Struggling the cruel extremely sadistic Rasheed, And suffering all kinds of violence and subjected to his shifting mood and volatile temper. Witnessing the ugliness of war, the fate of loved ones, grieving for lost lives. The end of the novel give some hope in its last scene after all the violent accidents, with Laila's pregnancy, Kabul rebuilding, and a loving family reunion. The novel centers around the friendship between Mariam and Laila.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love, a stunning accomplishment. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years, from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding, that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives, the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness, are inextricable from the history playing out around them.

This book is not good as “The Kite Runner” but still is a good read.

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Dhitendra

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74th Blog - “The Kite Runner" By Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner” is the first novel by Mr. Khaled published in year 2003 by River head books. Since the book was released in year 2003. I can say It was now a long time when I completed this book.

   Since this was the first book of Author, besides the polished work he done in this book is par excellence. I can say In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political disturbance – in this case, Afghanistan – while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional victories vibrate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try. This book is mostly revolving around the social causes of Afghanistan and the war that is in this country daily-schedule. For a good reader One of favorite things in literature is learning. If S(he) learn from a book, S(he) consider it valuable. Bite-sized foreign languages lessons will reinforce a book's merit and this author surly taught something about the history, language, and geography of Afghanistan.

It is a haunting and sorrowful story of the friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices and their lives.

A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.A novel set mostly in Afghanistan. The introverted and insecure afghan narrator, Amir, grows up in Afghanistan in the closing years of the monarchy and the first years of the short-lived republic. His best and most faithful friend, Hassan, is the son of a servant. Amir feels he betrays Hassan by not coming to his aid when Hassan is set on by bullies and furthermore forces Hassan and his father Ali to leave his father´s service. Amir´s relatively privileged life in Kabul comes to an end when the communist regime comes to power and his extrovert father, Baba emigrates with him to the U.S. There Amir meets his future afghan wife and marries her. Amir's father dies in the U.S. and Amir receives a letter from his father´s most trusted business partner and, for a time, Amir's surrogate father, which makes Amir return, alone, to a Taliban dominated Afghanistan in search of the truth about himself and his family, and finally, a sort of redemption.

A movie with same name is released in year, 2007 and was highly rewarded across world-wide.

 





 
 Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was fifteen years old. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-eight countries. In 2007, It was followed by “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

 

The Kite Runner is not a romance, but it is a love story. A love story between fathers and sons, and those we call brothers- of the heart, if not blood. Their story touches on the complexities of familial love and accurately shows that, at times, we can love and hate those we feel the closest too.

One of highly recommended book for Literature Lover.

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Dhitendra

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