The Kite Runner

I started reading the kite runner 5 months back. It was so powerful and so sad that I could not bring myself to finish it. Avoiding the sadness of the book I moved on to rereading Potter and R.K. Narain. After a discussion on Christmas eve, I came home and frantically searched for it. I found it under of a pile of old books. I picked up the book again only to realize that it kept getting more sad. Khaled Hosseini brilliantly wove a story of a young boy in Afghanistan. He makes you feel the emotions of the characters in the book so strongly that at times you become the character. You feel his remorse and you feel his helplessness. You want to judge him but you can't because the character is you. The book was sad and I wanted to put the book down but could not. I had to know the fate of my characters or more importantly know if he becomes "good again". I finished reading it at 5:00 in the morning, unable to think.