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#1. Knock

“Please don’t leave me”, were the words uttered by him in between sobs, in an agonized voice and a strange defiant body language. She (almost) yelled back, “Why should I not when you did EXACTLY JUST THAT some few months ago by choosing to walk out of what we had?” How was his request even fair? They had crossed the infamous seven-year itch. And this was year #8. Year eight is what the world doesn’t talk about, my friends. And I believe it has a good reason not to. It’s the year of the wound.  Atleast, that’s what I wanted to call it. And Vinay’s expectation of quick and easy forgiveness was rubbing some serious salt to my deep, deep, wounds. It was a strange weekend, with an eerie silence in the house. There were voices in my head. My own, telling me multiple things. His, through the flashback of his bit in the conversations we’d had in the recent few days. And a third unfamiliar voice, whose shoulders were seducing me with the bandage to my wounds. The only decibel th...

Book Review : KHALED HOSSEINI

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K haled Hosseini,Afghan-American writer is renowned for his two bestselling books, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.I’v read both and I must admit, I absolutely loved his works. It paints a soulful, emotional and touching journey of the people of Afghanistan woven in a fabric of simple yet compelling words which brings out the fact that the basic emotions of love,patriotism,jealously,fear,passion,freindiship,pain etc. exist even in a country with which sadly nowadays one associates only war and they have been wonderfully captivated by Hosseini. Of course, he has brought out the reality of the actual turmoil in a small sense. Kite Runner is about a rich kid who moves to the US of A during his growing years because the Taliban take over his homeland .It mainly describes his life pre and post Taliban; first in Afghanistan with his friend and next; finding love in America and the life changing event that occurs in-between the geographical and emotional shift and also his ...