Foreshadowing

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini is one of the best novel that I have ever read. His first novel "The Kite Runner" is equally good.

At some places the author has used a completely different technique of story telling. I didn't like it much and I suggest he should avoid it. The one word that comes to my mind for that technique is "Spoiler"(experts call it foreshadowing). The author plainly tells the reader about the things that are going to happen next. E.g. (The Kite Runner, when Amir eats a grape)'the last bit of solid food I would eat for a long time'. Great!! Now I know Amir will be beaten up and he won't be able to eat solid food for next few months.

Wiki says: "Foreshadowing is a technique used by authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later in the story. In other words, it is a literary device in which an author drops hints about the plot and what may come in the near future or, in other words, the plot developments to come later in the story."