The Kite Runner

 Book Review: 🌸

For you, a thousand times over.

This might be the saddest book I've read judge on how much I've cried. Khaled Hossen's The Kite Runner is a sad tale based during the Afghanistan period when they were colonised by the Russian and theqn the Taliban. I will try not to have spoilers in this review. 

A story of love, loss, discrimination, courage, and cowardice. This book is an English teacher's dream, I assume, as it is filled with metaphors, quotes that need exploring, personification, and all the little English things that make teacher's giddy when reading poems.

There is a lot to unpack in this book. As I was reading this book, I sat on edge because of all the sad turn of events that kept happening.  Happening to Amir, to Hassan, to Baba, to Soraya, and lastly Sohrab. Yet at times, the sad parts were too much for me to handle and I would not read the book for one day to recuperate. 

How I cried reading this book. Yet lemme share quotes from this book that I love:

"For you, a thousand times over."

"But better hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie"

"It always hurts more to have and lose than not have in the first place"

"'The desert weed live s on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.' Such grace, such dignity, such tragedy."

"Lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in the turmoil of uncertainty."

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐