![]() ![]() Overall, a very enjoyable read – but don’t forget his other excellent books. This is a monumental novel following the story of a family rising from their beginnings in abject poverty in rural Afghanistan to affluence in California. To say here comes another Khaled Hosseini ( The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns) would risk denigrating the excellence of the writing, the ability to engage and draw in the reader and the fine storytelling and yet … In this case the storyteller is a master. Individuals come and go but family stories remain. I find this book manages what I think only the elderly in a small relatively fixed community manage, and that is to follow, remember and bring together the multiplicity of strands in one’s genealogy over a lifetime. ![]() Increasing prosperity follows to a life in the USA, not neglecting corruption, cruelty and moral breakdown along the way, through to a circular return to their roots. ![]() It chronicles aching life events such as the selling of a daughter, not more than a toddler, to a wealthy childless couple in Kabul. The Kite Runner recounts the memories of an Afghan refugee to the US, while And the Mountains Echoed relates a range of interconnected exile narratives that. This is a monumental novel following the story of a family rising from their beginnings in abject poverty in rural Afghanistan to affluence in California while never forgetting their connections to their home and family in war-torn Afghanistan. ![]()
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