Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Achingly beautiful, piercingly brutal

Yes, it's a masterpiece. For once the blurb doesn't lie. If you wish to know what this book is 'about', then read the editiorial reviews. I won't restate the premise and plot here. All I can do is provide one subjective response. It's simply the best book I''ve read all year.A book that with grace and simplicity is full of such tenderness and harshness, dream and reality, ignorance and self-knowledge. It's unsparing, unsentimental, unforgettable, and impossibly moving. Here is a tale of a love and a land, a tale of two cultures, a tale of a boy and a girl that skewers the heart - one that remains like a splinter in the mind. With the book's last sentence I wept for a love found and lost and if it were my own. In immersing one its joy and pain, this book has that rare and remarkable ability to make one feel more alive.