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And the Mountains Echoed Hardcover – May 21, 2013

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An Amazon 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. The tale is about a young boy who is taken by a div (a sort of ogre), and how that fate might not be as terrible as it first seems—a brilliant device that firmly sets the tone for the rest of this sweeping, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel. A day after he tells the tale of the div, the father gives away his own daughter to a wealthy man in Kabul. What follows is a series of stories within the story, told through multiple viewpoints, spanning more than half a century, and shifting across continents. 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. This is a masterwork by a master storyteller. —Chris Schluep

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*Starred Review* Saboor, a laborer, pulls his young daughter, Pari, and his son, Abdullah, across the desert in a red wagon, leaving their poor village of Shadbagh for Kabul, where his brother-in-law, Nabi, a chauffeur, will introduce them to a wealthy man and his beautiful, despairing poet wife. So begins the third captivating and affecting novel by the internationally best-selling author of The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007). An immense, ancient oak stands in Shadbagh, emblematic of the complexly branching stories in Hosseini’s vital, profound, and spellbinding saga of family bonds and unlikely pairings forged by chance, choice, and necessity. We meet twin sisters, one beautiful, one plain; one an invalid, the other a caretaker. Two male cousins, one a charismatic wheeler-dealer; the other a cautious, introverted doctor. A disfigured girl of great valor and a boy destined to become a plastic surgeon. Kabul falls and struggles to rise. Shadbagh comes under the rule of a drug lord, and the novel’s many limbs reach to Paris, San Francisco, and a Greek island. A masterful and compassionate storyteller, Hosseini traces the traumas and scarring of tyranny, war, crime, lies, and illness in the intricately interconnected, heartbreaking, and extraordinary lives of his vibrantly realized characters to create a grand and encompassing tree of life. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The immense popularity of Hosseini’s previous books ensures a high-profile promotional campaign and mounting word-of-mouth excitement in anticipation of the release of his first new novel in six years. --Donna Seaman

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Riverhead Books; First Edition (May 21, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 404 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 159463176X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594631764
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.62 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.37 x 9.5 inches
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Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world, with over thirty eight million copies of his books sold in more than seventy countries. The Kite Runner was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California.

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Customers find the storytelling compelling and intriguing. They praise the writing quality as masterful, exquisite, and poetic. The book provides a fascinating look at lives intersecting across cultures and human belonging. Readers appreciate the richness of the numerous characters, describing them as vivid and human. They find the tale emotional and compassionate, depicting the harsh realities of life.

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Customers enjoy the compelling storytelling and find the book relatable. They describe it as fresh, poignant, and relevant to the time. Readers appreciate the great themes of literature and life weaved throughout the story.

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2,924 customers mention "Writing quality"2,410 positive514 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book. They find the writing exquisite, poetic, and soothing. The story is told with piercing detail and compassion, creating unique voices for each of the characters. Readers describe the book as masterful.

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Customers find the book thought-provoking and engaging. They say it's a moving tale of human belonging and displacement, skillfully told by a writer with great insight and compassion. The book captures their emotions from the very first page and gives them a rare view of Afghan culture. Readers mention the author whets their appetite to read more about Afghanistan and the echoes of what human connection, family, and kindness can do.

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Customers enjoy the rich character development in the book. They appreciate the diverse yet similar characters, their strength of character and courage, and how the story spans continents, eras, and multiple versions of life.

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634 customers mention "Family bond"607 positive27 negative

Customers find the book moving and relatable. They appreciate the universal nature of the relationships and ties that bind them. The book is an allegory about family and power, written by a master at crafting stories of relationships between people. Readers mention the strong sense of loyalty and devotion in the characters.

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Abdullah and his sister, Pari, live with their father, stepmother, and baby half-brother in a poor village in Afghanistan. They struggle to have enough to eat, but Abdullah and Pari are happy and have an extremely close relationship. Desperate to provide for his family, their father has to make a difficult decision, one that changes their lives forever.Hosseini’s tale spans several decades and generations of the family, and we follow them to Paris, the United States, and back to Afghanistan. The narration jumps between the past and the present, and is told by several different characters. It wasn't always clear who the narrator was, or how he or she was relevant to the story until later. I don't usually mind authors who do that, but in this case, it was often too much work and definitely detracted from my enjoyment of the story.While I did like the book, I was a bit disappointed in it. I loved “The Kite Runner” and was very much looking forward to reading this. Unfortunately, it fell short of my expectations; however, I do feel it is a story worth reading.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2019
    Although, as an initial impression at first glance, this story's structure feels disjointed, I found it to be spectacular where its plot, characters, and the author’s skill in storytelling are concerned, and I am afraid no review, starting with this one, can do justice to such a great novel.

    The core story has to do with the selling of a child to a childless, disturbed woman and thus forcibly separating her, Pari Wahdati, from her older brother Abdullah who cared for her ever since their mother died. I am not going to give away the story's ending by answering the question of if the two children ever find each other again or cross paths in some ways.

    The novel opens with Saboor, who is Pari and Abdullah’s father, telling a tale to his children about a young boy who is taken by a div (a giant ogre) and how that fate might not be too bad. This opening introduces the main plot and points to Saboor as the father who is made to sell his child (Pari) because of poverty, after his children's uncle Nabi's urging.

    Still, the book is not only about this core plot. There are several subplots relating the characters to one another in some way. Each character is realistically and masterfully portrayed and each character is human and complex, even those that have a bit of wickedness in them.

    Like the multifaceted plot, the themes also abound in this remarkable story. Some of them touch the dynamic between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, siblings and friends, and husband and wife relationships, making the events and actions sparkle through the lives of several pairs of characters. Pain, love, trauma, guilt, gratitude, loyalty, loss, friendship, adoption, and family themes run throughout the story that has several settings worldwide, such as Afghanistan especially Shadbagh, Greece, Paris, London, Jalozai Refugee Camp in Pakistan, and the US. Especially, the subplots and the main storyline that touch the political and social upheavals in Afghanistan are stunning, but even then, this book is mainly about people as human beings.

    The story is told through shifting viewpoints, mostly in the third person from the perspective of the character whose story is being presented, but a reader can relate to each viewpoint or voice and character very well. If any gaps are left while presenting another character’s subplot, in another side story another character informs the readers of the outcome of the first subplot. Thus, the story’s timeline stretches between 1952 to our time in the twenty-first century.

    Despite being a story so vast in time and focus and so rich with subplots and characters, its smooth flow or fluidity is a testament to the skill of this author.

    To say the least, I would consider myself shortchanged from the literary point of view if I had missed reading this novel. I am very glad I had enough curiosity to purchase this book.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2014
    I don't know exactly. Like his two other books, Hosseini is an excellent storyteller. He's great with words and produces images that flow like poetry. The story is touching, emotional and speaks of life's hardships and the difficult choices one must make. Deeper than that, it speaks of how the choices you make now may have a ripple effect- or echo- over time. If you don't happen to shed a tear at some point while reading, you're heartless. He captures your emotions from the very first page and he does this very well, as he did in his other novels. You find yourself transported to 1950's Afghanistan where you smile, cry, and feel pity right alongside the unfortunate characters in this book. But Hosseini tried something different with "And The Mountains Echoed" and that was incorporating a slew of different characters as opposed to just two, like he did in his last two books, and I don't know if it worked out too well. Some people could have been mentioned in passing, or not even at all, as opposed to dedicating whole chapters to them, such as Markos and Thalia's story. Also the Bashiri cousins seemed unnecessary. Even though these characters were unique in their own way and provided food for thought regarding their plights, I still felt like these chapters dragged on when I was more concerned about what was happening with the others. It was like Hosseini deliberately sucked us in, made us get cozy with Saboor and his family just to rip them away from us and branch off onto some completely different writing exercise. As the reader, I just couldn't reshape my feelings to feel another strong connection to these new characters. Regarding the writing style, the book spanned over several generations and then spoke in the first person from the point of view of different characters from the next generation which got confusing at first, especially as he jumps between past and present and even geographical locations. Furthermore, he squeezed in yet another subplot towards the end of the book (with Iqbal and the commander) and it came off sounding short and incomplete. I feel like the author could have dedicated more pages developing and telling the story of the characters we already got to know and love in the beginning, rather than introducing new, unnecessary ones halfway through the book. This format Hosseini used left a lot of open ends and a kind of longing, leaving the reader unsatisfied.
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  • Ravi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book... Must read
    Reviewed in India on October 29, 2024
    A bit slow but sooo touching
  • aska86
    5.0 out of 5 stars Indimenticabile
    Reviewed in Italy on August 26, 2021
    I romanzi di Khaled Hosseini hanno la capacità di rapirti, di toglierti il fiato, di farti emozionare, piangere, rilfettere. In più l'autore produce opere con il contagocce, facendoti desiderare ardentemente il prossimo volume da mangiare avidamente in pochi giorno.

    "And the mountains echoed" ripercorre 60 anni di storia afghana, calandoci nei suoi drammi collettivi attraverso le vicende individuali di 3 generazioni di personaggi, con la vicenda che si snoda fra Kabul e Parigi, la California e la Grecia. Hosseini ha una capacità innata di esplorare la psicologia dei personaggi, riconnettendola alle vicende di attualità del loro tempo: ognuno di essi incarna un ben definito archetipo umano, senza che ciò sfoci nella creazione di figure stereotipate ed esagerate.

    Certe parti sono veramente toccanti e drammatiche: preparatevi ad avere un nodo in gola e gli occhi lucidi, a maggior ragione pensando alle immagini tragiche innescate dal ritorno dei Talibani di agosto 2021. Difficile non associare Pari alle scene drammatiche dei genitori che affidano i figli ai militari americani all'aeroporto di Kabul.

    Hosseini - con la sua prosa scorrevole, armoniosa, emotiva - ci pone domande scomode su noi stessi e sull'ipocrisia della società occidentale. In quale personaggio ci ritroveremo? Nel cooperante greco Markos? Oppure nel personaggio mediocremente incerto di Idris in rapporto a Rosha?

    Un'opera meravigliosa che va assolutamente letta nella versione in lingua originale, ricca di termini ricercati.
  • Nato Pachuashvili
    5.0 out of 5 stars Discover new Hosseini
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2019
    Having read not so good reviews about Hosseini's third novel, I was a little sceptical whether to read the book. Hosseini's previous books have had so much impression on me that I was curious to know more of his works.

    The book opens with a dreadful fairy tale (a child is sacrificed to the Evil Jinny in order to save others ) that was presumably told by a father to his children. This puts you off reading for a while but it's Hossaini's talent and his story telling gift to make you emotionally bound to the story and its characters. Whatever I thought cruel and unreal is an actual theme of the novel: you make sacrifices "sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand" - that hurts, really hurts and tears never stop dropping but you still continue reading because you sympathise with the characters and search answers for others' cruelty.

    10-year-old Abdullah is torn away from his beloved sister, Pari, who is sold to a rich family in Kabul. The story is told from different characters and the flow is not chronological- it is rather built as a serious of tales, each told in a different style from a different point of view. Unlike other reviewers, I love the way it is written- you get insight into each character and realise their struggle for happiness. I even made a parallel between Amir from the Kite Runner and Idriss- an Afghan born American doctor who promises to help Roshi- a victim of the brutal murder and his inability to do so- to sacrifice his wealth to help the poor creature. I think Hosssaini complicates our thoughts about generosity, all of his characters are complicated too- as the story unfolds, you get to know them better, you realise and revise your judgement about them and recognise the good in the bad or opposite.

    I also loved how almost all characters are then linked to each other, cross each other's way in their accounts: you later realise that Abdullah in Idriss's story is your main character you've been waiting to read about all the way through. You learn more About Nila from Pari's account as well as Nabi`s. Its not an easy read, Hussaini deviates from his writing style in his previous novels, but I found this twist quite interesting. It does test your patience though.

    I also liked the way Hossaini tries to break from rigid rules- Nila is an example of a revolutionary woman who wouldn't follow strict Afgan rules of being a "sacred" because you're woman, the character you love and hate at the time. It was also surprising to raise the issue of a gay love on a very subtle level- this was something new I discovered in this novel. The author touches many issues here in one piece of work: true brother-sister love, revolutionary woman, one's inability to sacrifice his wealth to help others, on the other hand a devotion of the cheuffer to his employer, Pari`s loyalty on the cost of her own happiness. I did find some parts too brutal to picture, but overall it was fantastic!

    I think the book is the literature masterpiece and should be among bestsellers.
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  • 李 元徳
    5.0 out of 5 stars 全てが良かったです。
    Reviewed in Japan on January 11, 2022
    全てが良かったです。
  • Debbie Burton
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, thoughtful and enjoyable
    Reviewed in Australia on July 4, 2021
    Beautifully written book exploring the meaning of family. Khaled Hosseini is an author who blends history, place and humanity. The weaving of characters and places throughout the book provides the reader with discoveries to uncover along the way. The most enjoyable and moving book I have read.