Amir and Hassan were breastfed by the same woman and lived the same childhood of play, movies and characters in Kabul in the 70''s. But, while Amir was the son of a wealthy and highly respected among Afghans, Hassan was the son of the employee''s home of Amir.
Hassan did everything by the friend, also defended the fights in the street. Amir was cowardly and if aproveitava the lack of studies of Hassan, inventing stories and meanings of words, for example. We also felt jealous when her baba (father) seemed more proud of the conduct of Hassan than the attitudes of their own child.
In the winter of 1975, Amir had a chance to win her nanny. Venceu championship of the famous local kites. And for that Amir arrived at home with the trophy - the last
kite cut -, Hassan went behind the blue kite. In an alley, found Assef, a boy of rich family who hated the Hazaras as chasing Amir and Hassan also, for this is a friend of hazara.
Assef violentou Hassan, because this not to him the blue kite and also because Hassan, to defend Amir, threatened with the slingshot once. Amir attended the scene, but hidden, without doing anything to help Hassan.
To distance his sense of guilt, Amir armed situation for a mandar Hassan and father, Ali, although the home. Simulou that Hassan got some gifts that he won the anniversary. Did you know baba considered the act of stealing the only sin of mankind. When the baba asked Hassan if he did just that, to protect Amir Hassan confirmed the fury of his father. Hassan Baba forgiven, however while Ali was with his son, to protect it from Amir.
At that time, Afghanistan has started to face the Soviet invasion and some time after Amir and his baba said flee the country. The devastating experiences for which fell closer, finally, father and son. They were living in the U.S..
In America, Amir found the love of father and a beautiful woman. Soraya and Amir and his children did not have baba died of cancer. But Amir lives a good marriage and becomes a writer.
The last of guilt and cowardice comes to the surface when Rahin Khan, a friend of his who called baba Amir and encouraged to be writer when I was child, he asked for the visit in Pakistan. At that meeting, Amir Hassan discovers that his brother was indeed the son of the same father. His baba had stolen the right of him and Hassan to know the truth.
Rahin also shows that the Taliban killed Hassan and his wife, when he tried to defend the home of Amir, where he had returned to live. But the son of Hassan, Sorab, was alive and was taken to an orphanage.
Amir has, then the chance to redeem by making the Hassan. Back to Afghanistan and find their country destroyed by the Taliban. Search the son of Hassan and is the home of a Taliban, which bought an orphanage to use it as a sexual object. To surprise of Amir, the Taliban is Assef.
Amir faces Assef and takes a beaten that lets almost dead. The son of Hassan, as good as the father with the slingshot, hits the eye of Assef and fleeing with Amir.
When Amir leaves the hospital, takes the boy for Pakistan. He has trouble adopt it because of the rules of the American consulate. Following the advice of a lawyer, Amir cites Sorab a chance to put it in an orphanage run as the process of adoption. Disappointed, the boy tries to kill, cutting the wrists. Amir is in the tub, soon after knowing that an uncle of Soraya help get a visa to Sorab.
Amir will take to the hospital in time. Desesperado the life of Sorab, he discovers his own faith in God. When Sorab itself out, both fly to the U.S.. Sorab not speak again and lost the love for life. Much is happening until one day in a festival of street between Afghans, girls start to play with kites and Amir provides for a nephew. When Amir can cut the kite of a rival, Sorab outlines a slight smile and Amir is happy behind the trophy to him, with the hope to regain the confidence of Sorab.
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