Amir has a very difficult time processing this information. The biggest shock is that Baba had participated in theft — a theft that affected not only Amir, but also Hassan and Ali. Amir realizes that he and Baba were more alike than he never knew when his father was alive. Amir knows that Rahim Khan called him to Pakistan "to atone not just for my sins but for Baba's too." Sohrab, an orphan boy, presents perhaps the only opportunity Amir will ever have to atone for the sins of both generations.
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