Perspectives in the novels by Khaled Hosseini

Abstract

The present research focuses on the analysis of the
 novels “The Kite Runner”, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, “And the Mountains
 Echoed” by Afghan born American writer Khaled Hosseini in line with the major
 characteristics of the historical perspective in literature.  The literature scholars and researchers are
 highly interested in Afghan-American literature as representing the diaspora
 features. In his novels Hosseini could depict Afghanistan in terms of three
 perspectives: childhood, womanhood and family reunion in pre-in-post Taliban
 periods. Considering the perspectives found in this research, it is obvious
 that Hosseini globally demonstrates the real outlook of his nation and country,
 and moreover establishes that having peace and wealth is the life meaning for
 Afghan people the same as for other human beings. In the present analysis, the
 research problem is to investigate how the major perspectives of Afghanistan
 have been employed to represent Khaled Hosseini’s literary image as a writer.
 The data collected from the detailed analysis of the texts of Hosseini’s novels
 “The Kite Runner”, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, “And the Mountains Echoed”
 helped to answer questions related to childhood, womanhood and family reunion
 perspectives of Afghanistan. The results of this work revealed that the writer
 used these three perspectives effectively in his texts to show the macrocosm of
 Afghanistan. This study is an effort to unfold the significance of literary
 characteristics of the novels mentioned above. It will help to decode the
 essential perspective peculiarities of Hosseini’s works by applying historical
 perspective method.