Dear ones!
I have had butterflies in my stomach since I finished reading "The Kite Runner" and I still can feel how deeply it moved me.
I think that reading a powerful, poignant book is one of the best things in the whole world.
Today I would like to share with you 3 books that send the same message and have one common idea of how sacred and innocent childhood is and how painful it is to become an adult, how tough things can get for children who seek their identity but are faced with the complexity and unfairness of the world that is ruled by grown-ups.
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists.
THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted.
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky manages to capture with accuracy the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide.
I read all of them and can strongly recommend reading these books. They will touch your heart and will give you a lot of insights and things to think over for days to come.
xx
Tania
