This is a book of a beautiful tapestry of stories. This tapestry has interlocking stories, some of which meander away quickly and you wonder if and when we will pick up that part of the story again. Other parts seemingly have little to do with the overall picture but ultimately provide their impor...
Read by Angela: Although I enjoyed it, it certainly did not meet up to my expectations of his first two novels: One Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner. There are so many characters weaved in the story that it does become a little difficult to follow. If I wasn’t comparing them to his other t...
At the beginning of the book, we are in Afghanistan. Saboor is telling his children, Pari and Abdullah, a heart rending fable about a father who, when forced to sacrifice his child, becomes obsessed with finding that child. When he succeeds, he discovers the child is happy and thriving in an environ...
At the beginning of the book, we are in Afghanistan. Saboor is telling his children, Pari and Abdullah, a heart rending fable about a father who, when forced to sacrifice his child, becomes obsessed with finding that child. When he succeeds, he discovers the child is happy and thriving in an environ...
We've all been told to avoid making mountains out of molehills. I think the inverse is also true: don't reduce mountains into molehills. You can sometimes take a vast and complicated struggle- in this case the troubled history of Afghanistan for the past 100 years - and divvy it up into bite-sized i...
Traveling across the desert from their tiny village to Kabul their father entertains Abdullah and Pari with an Afghani fairy tale about a little boy kidnapped by an evil ogre. The moral of the fairy tale is that sometimes despite feeling like the most horrible thing in the world has happened, it al...
Mr. Hosseini’s latest novel is not flashy. It is not suspenseful, nor is it action-packed. Its pacing is methodical. The characters are simple, and in some cases even simplistic. What And the Mountains Echoed does is paint a picture. It paints a picture of a land beleaguered by hundreds of years of ...
Hosseini is clearly a gifted story teller who loves his craft. In this case, And the Mountains Echoed, he loved the act of telling a bit too much. The Afghani fairy tale and tale of the family which is split open by poverty, war, and depression are central and enough. The story of the Greek doctor w...
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