Blog #3

Amir grows more mature. Amir constantly thinks about Soraya. Amir meets her at the Taheri's booth while her father is away. He greets her with her stories. Soraya's mother Jamilla interrupted their conversation. Amir looks polite as he greets her as Khanum Taheri.

Baba catches bad cold which is finally diagnosed to a lung cancer.The doctors try to prolong his life by chemotherapy, but Baba refuses.

Baba grows weaker. One day Baba collapses at the flea market. He is taken to the hospital. The waiting room gets filled with Afghans.

Amir tells Baba that he wants to marry Soraya.Baba talks to Taheri. They both agree. Soraya tells Amir that she once ran away with an Afghan man. Amir his still afraid to her about Hassan.

The next night the house is full of people. The wedding takes place.

After a few days, Baba thinks that now Amir is grown. He dies while he was sleeping. There is no one to give Amir way. Amir cries for the first time after Baba's death.

Amir and Soraya buy their own apartment. In the summer of 1998, he finishes his first novel.

Next year, the Soviets leave. They try to have a baby. They go to different specialists and find that it is not possible. They have to adopt.




June 2001




Rahim Khan is in Pakistan and is very sick. He calls Amir to Pakistan. Rahim Khan says that he is dying.

The talk turns about the Taliban Rahim Khan says that the Taliban was thought to bring peace, but it didn't.

Rahim Khan says that he lived in their house. He tells him the-the reason he called him, to tell him that Hassan lived with him.He tells him the story.

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Ali had been killed by a land mine two years ago. Hassan's wife was pregnant.When Rahim Khan asked them to come to Kabul, they refused. When Rahim Khan tells them that Baba is dead, Hassan weeps.
The next morning they come to Kabul.They live in the servant's hut. Farzana gives birth to a stillborn girl.
Farzana becomes pregnant again.One day that same year Sanaubar, Hassan’s mother arrives.Sanaubar delivered Farzana’s baby, a boy that they named Sohrab after the character from “Rostam and Sohrab,” the story Hassan and Amir loved as children. After four years, Sanaubar dies.
By then it was 1995, the Soviets were gone. Hassan taught Sohrab to read and write so that he would not grow up illiterate like his father. In the winter, Hassan took Sohrab kite running.
In 1996, however, the Taliban took over, and they banned kite fighting and Hassan knew that their regime meant danger for Hazaras – and two years later, the Taliban massacred the Hazaras.

Amir asks if Hassan is still at Baba’s house. Rahim Khan does not answer but hands Amir an envelope. There in  the photograph of Hassan as a grown man in the envelope.
Rahim Khan tells him that Hassan and his wife were killed by the Taliban. His son Sohrab was in an orphanage.
Rahim Khan delivers one last piece of information – Ali was sterile. Amir asks who Hassan’s father was then, but then he understands that it was Baba. He has to go. Sohrab is his nephew.

Amir was saved by Hassan. Now Amir has to save Hassan's son, Sohrab.The secret is revealed. Hassan s Baba's son.