Summary

They arrive in Islamabad and get a hotel room. Farid leaves them, saying he needs to return to his family. Amir spends the night wondering when his physical injuries will be healed and wondering what he’ll do with Sohrab, though he admits that he already knows he’ll take him to America. Amir sleeps and when he wakes Sohrab is gone. He recalls that Sohrab had been enthralled with a mosque a short distance away and finds him there. Sohrab is struggling with the fact that he injured Assef. He says Hassan taught him that it’s always wrong to hurt someone because even a bad person can change. Amir says that Hassan had saved Amir when they were children and Assef threatened to harm Amir. He says Assef later hurt Hassan. Sohrab asks if Hassan would be disappointed in Sohrab for hurting...