And the Mountains Echoed Free Preview by Khaled Hosseini

And the Mountains Echoed Free Preview Reviews

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  MJ

  And the Mountains Echoed had me weeping from the sheer beauty and tenderness of Hosseini’s story telling ability. I think it is his best one yet.
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  Susim Munshi

  For a book that spans Afghanistan, France, Greece, San Francisco, it is not quite the Khaled I got used to in The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns. He is even better. From the beginning to the end, he kept me spellbound and locked in. Especially because there is a sprinkle of predictability. I did not turn to pages ahead to sneak a preview. Rather I lived and breathed with each new character and enjoyed the splendid weaving of an epic story that spans three continents and three generations.
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  Shailendra Kharwas

  The Plot
  A man named Abdullah in Afghanistan in 1952, brother cum parent of his sister Pari. Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night hey sleep together in their cot, their limbs tangled.
  One day in Kabul his sister is deserted by his father to another family due to some financial crisis. And as they say sometimes a finger must be cut to save a hand.
  Lives of everyone take mysterious turn, Pari go to France with her adopted mother due to family problems. Due to invasion of USSR in Afghanistan Abdullah & his remaining family moved to Pakistan. From there Abdullah go to San Francisco.
  Crossing generation and continents moving from Kabul, to Paris, to San Francisco , to Greek Island of Ti nos.
  After 58 long years in 2010, Siblings meet together, as everyone make their certain choices.
  
  
  
  I found a sad little fairy, Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy who was blown away by the wind one night.
  
  My Views
  During the time of Pandemic Covid-19, A good book to spent the time and great book to empathize the journey of characters. There are so many characters in the book, so many stories associated with them. Every character has to make certain choices to get the book a ending not the good one but the harsh one. Every Relation is described beautifully. Every city around the world has well explained looks like I already there when I read the book.
  Some stories are not well connected like Idris Bashiri and a girl named Roshi, like Abdullah and his wife. Author couldn't write about many characters well because of large no. of characters and book length, I thought. But as Author summaries it on the protagonist Abdullah and Pari, that's all matters.
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  Aditee

  And the Mountains Echoed, is the story of separation of siblings, where 10 years old Abdullah, is forced by his father to give his infant sister Pari to a wealthy family. Events and circumstances in Kabul, Afghanistan, are transposed to France and America. While Pari is married and has children in France, Abdullah has married, owns a restaurant in America, and has a daughter named Pari. Despite having access to all of life's amenities, Pari feels lonely and empty and searches for her origin and biological family. The book is filled with struggle, pain, empathy, desire, extreme discomfort, and affection for each other.
  When they are both grown and are able to show their love for one another, the siblings finally cross paths.
  However, this isn't a single story. The nine interconnected stories in this collection are all connected by the same themes of family, reliance, trust, deceit, and rejection. Each tale presents a different member of this Afghan family as well as the others they come into contact with.
  You won't get exactly what you're hoping for if you plan to read this book, yet I'm sure that it will connect you from first one.
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  Fahmida Ahmed

  "Sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand"
  
  "They tell me I must wade into waters,where I will drown.Before I march in,I leave this on the shore for you.I pray you find it,sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under"
  
  "I still had the luxary of forgetting "
  
  This book is not as amazing as the previous two books of hosseni but the story of pari & abdullah will definitely move your heart.
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  Chiara Ferrari

  And the Mountains Echoed is painfully sad but also radiant with love: the enduring bond of a brother and sister; the irritable but bedrock connection of cousins; the quiet intimacy of master and servant who become friends; the commitment of a doctor and nurse to war's victims. To underscore love's centrality and contingency, Hosseini closes with an image drawn from a dream: a snapshot of bygone happiness all the more precious in retrospect because we know how fragile it is.
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  Samikcha Agarwal

  I really have mixed feelings about this one. After two of the most amazingly, heart-wrenching tales by the author, i did have high expectations from this one. But i am sad to say that it was not what i was expecting or wanting. The story is nicely written but the themes were just so hidden and blurry, also the flow of the book felt very forced and unnatural. But it can be a leisure summer read no doubt.
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  Abigail Smith

  Will forever be a huge fan of Khaled's books. His storytelling has a way of capturing you and bringing a wide range of emotions to the surface. I found this one a little harder to follow, as many characters and back-and-forth stories existed. However, I loved how the beginning and the end tied together, especially with how the siblings unknowingly cared for each other.
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  Kik

  La corde sensible, quand elle vibre...
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  Zainab Farooq

  A beautiful and well written discription of Afghan society..
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  Marketam

  Sadly very dissapointing after two of his great books
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  Lucynelsonloveslife

  Love this book.
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  Anne Pearce

  I have loved everything by this author. I love this style of writing.
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  Maureen Monahan

  I loved this book! My only complaint is that it sometime was hard to weed through the details. I was so anxious to discover what would happen next. Khalid Hossein is a marvelous story teller!