Journey Towards Self-realization in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner: A Comparative Study

The Prolific South African novelist, Nadine Gordimer’s Pickup (2001) and the promising Afghan writer, Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner (2003) belong to New Literatures in English. main characters these two novels undertake their journey from native place foreign country pursuit of happiness, place, prosperity self-realization. This research paper attempts make a comparison between terms undertaken by protagonists Abdu Julie Amir though are set different background.