THE INTERTWINING CRISIS OF PERSONAL AND POLITICAL MEMORY IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF KHALED HOSSEINI

Abstract

The current paper investigates the parallel vision of personal and the political memory of Afghan’s in the novels of Khaled Hosseini. In his novel The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, war was a game changer. He cooked up the novels with his personal childhood memories and added spices of political memory with a pinch of fictional elements. Focusing on the political disaster and the consequences of war, people of Afghan’s suffers from turmoil of war, sexual harassment, patriarchal society, illegitimate child, extramarital affairs, lack of health center and ethnic culture tension. The trauma deals with the flashbulb memories which demystify and comprehend the various ethoses. The interconnecting issues of the political memory affect the normal life of every afghan in the city which was brilliantly penned by the author in both his novels. This study takes up the concern of logical statements towards the eternal pains of the memory of the ethoses due to the devastating war.