e arbitrary "price of loyalty". Themes of "love, honor, guilt, fear and redemption" are all included in this "extraordinary novelРprotagonist主角 Pashtun普什图人РAmir is the protagonist and narrator. He was born in 1963, and his mother died giving birth. He is a Pashtun. As a child, Amir delighted himself with storytelling and was encouraged by Rahim Khan to e an author. At age eighteen, he and his father flee to America following the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, where Amir pursues his dream of being a writer.?Hassan is Amir's closest childhood friend. He is described as having a China doll face, green eyes, and a cleft lip. The reader eventually discovers that Hassan is actually the son of Baba and Sanaubar, although Hassan never knows this during his lifetime. Hassan is shot by the Taliban.