Rahim Khan wants Amir to see him in Pakistan. He calls
Amir and tells him he is very sick but there is a way “for him to be good again.” Amir
first goes to Pakistan, then, and meets with Rahim Kahn, an adult friend of his father’s
who had befriended Amir when he was yet a child. Rahim was a type of mentor to Amir.
When he first arrives, he goes through the Peshawar district. A cab driver tells him
that Afghanistan has become a disaster since the Taliban took over. Rahim tells Amir
that he had been living in Baba’s house in Kabul. Hassan and his wife also go to live
there, but they are shot by the Taliban one day. Rahim tells Amir that his father, Baba,
was really the father of Hassan. Rahim Kahan wants Amir to find Hassan’s son, Sohrab,
who was sent to an orphanage. At first, Amir does not want to go, but he finally
realizes he must, and Rahim Kahn gets a friend to take Amir to Kabul. Amir sees signs of
war all along the way. Taliban are present everywhere.
Amir
finds Sohrab, who is being held by a Taliban official that turns out to be the evil
Assef of his childhood, the one who raped his friend Hassan when they were boys. There
is a fight, and Amir wakes up in a hospital back in Peshawar. Amir realizes that Sohrab
is not safe in Afghanistan, and takes him to Islamabad, Pakistan, to try to arrange to
bring him to the U.S.
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