America is a welcome place for all. It has always kept its doors open for immigrants from all over the world. The immigrant reasons are umpteen: some come in for studies, some for work. However, a vast majority seek shelter in America, away from economic or political crisis, religious conflict or warfare in their homeland. But it’s never a smooth ride for them. Clothed in one’s own culture, they find themselves strikingly different from the host be it name, culture, ethnicity or religion. Nevertheless, they seem to adapt with time and maintain their essential self. Literature stands as a testimony to this. A plethora of writers has spoken about immigrant life and their search for roots and meanings within American continent. Novels, essays
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His first The Kite Runner became international best seller which led him to his second A Thousand Splendid Suns and then the third novel joined the list And the Mountains echoed. All these novels are peculiar, as it creates a niche around Afghanistan and the storyline develops around the setting of a nation. While The Kite Runner perceives the world through the eyes of the protagonist Amir with the backdrop as history of Afghan from the Soviet Invasion to the emergence of Taliban and later its fall, A Thousand Splendid Sun takes a more feminine perspective. If the former was a father-son story, then the latter moves from the perspective of mother-daughter duo. Meanwhile, the third novel breaks the conventions of the previous two in telling stories not from a single character’s point of view, but is written as a collection of short stories in nine different chapters, each from a different …show more content…
The novel directly links its plot to the Afghan history, geography, ethnic groups, the Soviet invasion, the rise of the Taliban, 9/11 and the US invasion. It spans the period from before the 1979 Soviet invasion until the reconstruction following the fall of the Taliban. The book elicits Afghans as independent and proud people, who for decades have defended their country against one invader after another. But the narrator wonders if his people will ever transcend the tribalism that continues to threaten Afghanistan's
His first The Kite Runner became international best seller which led him to his second A Thousand Splendid Suns and then the third novel joined the list And the Mountains echoed. All these novels are peculiar, as it creates a niche around Afghanistan and the storyline develops around the setting of a nation. While The Kite Runner perceives the world through the eyes of the protagonist Amir with the backdrop as history of Afghan from the Soviet Invasion to the emergence of Taliban and later its fall, A Thousand Splendid Sun takes a more feminine perspective. If the former was a father-son story, then the latter moves from the perspective of mother-daughter duo. Meanwhile, the third novel breaks the conventions of the previous two in telling stories not from a single character’s point of view, but is written as a collection of short stories in nine different chapters, each from a different …show more content…
The novel directly links its plot to the Afghan history, geography, ethnic groups, the Soviet invasion, the rise of the Taliban, 9/11 and the US invasion. It spans the period from before the 1979 Soviet invasion until the reconstruction following the fall of the Taliban. The book elicits Afghans as independent and proud people, who for decades have defended their country against one invader after another. But the narrator wonders if his people will ever transcend the tribalism that continues to threaten Afghanistan's