And the Mountains Echoed
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611761808 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 12 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Fragile Webs that Connect Us" according to Carol A Ranney. After reading Hosseini"s first two books, which were mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night-and-finish heart stoppers, This was a complete change of pace, which kind of took me by surprise. But I loved it. About halfway through I felt I was missing connections, so I stopped and made a diagram of the characters, where they were at. 53 years later Summary: Pari and Abdullah are as close as siblings can be. Abdullah loves his sister so much, she is almost his daughter. So when the powers that be tear them apart, both of their lives are irrevocably changed. Years down the road we meet friends, doctors, chauffeurs, people whose lives are changed through this one event. "Close to perfect" according to Morris Branson. I am very careful when awarding five stars to any book. Most books, even if I really enjoy them, don't come up to the level of amazing; this book did. My view of Afghanistan, like I assume most people, is tainted by the wars, first the Soviet Union and more recently our invasion. Hosseini paints a much different picture b
What follows is a series of stories within the story, told through multiple viewpoints, spanning more than half a century, and shifting across continents. This is a masterwork by a master storyteller. The novel moves through war, separation, birth, death, deceit, and love, illustrating again and again how people’s actions, even the seemingly selfless ones, are shrouded in ambiguity. An Best Book of the Month, May 2013: Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed begins simply enough, with a father recounting a folktale to his two young children. A day after he tells the tale of the div, the father gives away his own daughter to a wealthy man in Kabul. The tale is about a young boy who is taken by a div (a sort of ogre), and how that fate migh
On May 21, 2013, the new novel from Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.