The Kite Runner
‘For you, a thousand mile over’ - said a friend to another.
It has been a while since a book could make me cry. So, this book took me by surprise. I have had it for a few months, shelved among my to-be-read list. I picked it up last Saturday and took it home to PD, just in case I get bored when he goes fishing with his brothers. I opened it, got hooked by the first sentence and couldn’t put it down.
It is a story about love, courage and cowardice. The love and courage was easy to understand. Everybody loves courage, everyone covets it.
It is the cowardice that grabs me, of how one learn to live with it, learn to accept the coward in him and learn to convert it into courage at the end of it, of making it through when God gave him a second chance.
It takes another kind of courage to live with cowardice.
I cried, once at the middle of the book and once more at the end. And I cried all over again when I reread the book. Right after I finished it the first time.
(photo from www.khaledhosseini.com)
