Thousand Splendid Suns

Now reading Khaled Hosseini's Thousand Splendid Suns

It is very pathetic to know the muslim women's struggle to live

Animal People

I am presently reading Animal People too.
It is a handicapped boys view on the world around him
He is living on a small street where a British Companies burning caused abundant deaths
directly and indirectly.
He himself became retarded because of the explosion.
He had lost his parents and became an orphan because of the explosion.
He is part of a group of people working to get compensation from the factory for the losses they
have incurred
There came a British lady Doctor, whom all of them despised but slowly she befriends with the boy
and then with the people even though they kept aloof from her with all their might. She promises the boy to make him normal by taking him back to her country and giving him the latest medications. The boy believe in her and it became his secret joy and dream as he wanted to marry
Nisha a beautiful, educated and courageous girl in his group. But it becomes a great shock for him to know that the lady Doctor is really the companies envoy.

will continue...

ലന്തന്‍ ബത്തേരിയയിലെ ലുധിയാനകള്‍

വായിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു
ജസീക്ക് ഇന്ന് ഹോസ്റ്റലില്‍ താമിസിക്കാന്‍ പോകുന്നു
അമ്മയും അപ്പനും വലിയച്ഛനും കുടുംബവും ഒക്കെക്കൂടെ ജസീക്കയ്ക്ക് ആവശ്യമുള്ളതൊക്കെ വാങ്ങിക്കൊടുത്ത് അവളെ ഹോസ്റ്റലില്‍ അയക്കാന്‍ തയ്യാറാകുന്നു
ചെറിയ കാര്യങ്ങലിലെ സതവും പ്രകൃതിയും മനുഷ്യരും ഒക്കെ ജസീക്കയുടെ ഉള്ളില്‍ ജീവനോടെ നില്‍ക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ഒരു ഹോസ്റ്റല്‍ വാസം. എന്താവാം കഥ!
എതിലും എന്റെ പ്രതിച്ഛായയുണ്ടാകുമോ!

Kite Runner

Finished reading 'Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. It is a story based on Afganistan's struggle for independence from Russian Autocracy and how the hero's (Amir) family and life and relationships are all affected by the changes.

Amir had to come down from his rich aristocratic way of life to a low slum life in America where he is ended up with his strong minded father. And from that slum life, they again revive together with many other afghan refugees . There, he finds love and comfort.

In the end, 'once a meek' hero goes back to his home land to save his best friend's (Hassan) son
Sohrab from the tyranny of the cruel villain (Assef- acommon enemy of both Amir and Hassan and the Hazara people). He saves the boy from the cruel sexual harassment from the villain Azif in his Army house and with much difficulty, he succeeded to adopt Sohrab and take back to America.

But the boy who has gone through much difficulty and cruelty in his small life span, even though atfirst, began to trust in Amir and his escape from the tyranny, refuses to accept his present comfort as real when an immigration problem occurs in his travel to America.

Sohrab tries to commit suicide but escapes. All the hardships he had gone through made him distrust people in general and pathetically he became mute and the incident invokes in Amir a much more deeper fatherly love towards the boy. Amir and his wife, Soraya who had no son or relatives to succeed them found in Sohrab, an heir, as well as a purpose to live.

In the end, in a kite running competition, Amir helps Sohrab to win (like Hassan helped Amir
long ago to win a kite running competion, and the tragedy followed while Hassan went in search of the defeated kite, which altered the half brother's life much and separates them forever) and it gives Sohrab a boost to believe in Amir and his love again and when Sohrab smiles for the first time, ( which was a sign of his recovery from the temporary muteness) after reaching America, it brings tears in Amir and Soraya, as well as in readers, at the thought that there are still good people on Earth who wait patiently to correct the mistakes done by many through their patience and goodwill.