The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

I have seldom before read anything so painful yet so beautiful as the writing of Khaled Hosseini. His writing makes you feel every blow dealt to a character both physical and mental. But he does more, you can smell the exotic spice and kabob and sweat that make the market places, you can hear the music of the voices calling out to hock their rugs or other goods, you can hear the children playing in the streets. It is amazingly vivid, and even at its worst it is beautiful.

The Kite Runner was very hard to bear but yet makes you not want to put it down, a thousand times over. A tale of war and pain but also of love and forgiveness Hosseini puts you in the middle of history and makes it small and personal which allows you to connect with the people in a way that isn't hindered by any cultural differences and then gives the reader a bit more understanding about the people of the country of Afghanistan.

I am late coming to this book but oh so better late than never.

I held it together pretty well until the last page and then Amir utters 6 words that broke the dam and the tears and sobs held at bay for almost 400 pages flowed.

Beautiful!!!

(finished May 25, 2013)