![]() ![]() Pari, as she is named, is loved by her older brother beyond words. Two things struck off her bucket listĬonnect with us on facebook. And the Mountains Echoed is a love story of a different kind. She also interviewed Khaled Hosseini (turn to page 8). Saudamini Jain read the book a month before it released. It’s about interesting characters and their heartfelt lives. The setting is still Afghanistan, but the book isn’t about the war or the Taliban. This book is unlike either of Hosseini’s previous novels. and you keep coming back to old, familiar Afghan territory. ![]() You move back and forth in time and space with every chapter. And then the tales follow: the separation of 10-year-old Abdullah and his three-year-old baby sister Pari half-French Nila Wahadati – the most fascinating character of the book, the daughter of a Pashtun aristocrat, who grows from a sensuous, rebellious young woman into an emotionally-damaged alcoholic the disquieting relationship between two sisters in Shadbagh a Greek aid worker in Afghanistan and his life back home the relationship between a disabled Afghan and his manservant in war-ravaged Kabul a young boy grappling with the realisation that his father is a druglord two Afghans in exile struggling with mixed emotions when they visit Afghanistan after many years… story after story, stories within stories. Nine chapters, nine interconnected stories, tailored in typical Hosseini fashion – family, love, grief and emotions. Don’t either of you ask me for more.”Įxcept, the book isn’t one story, but nine. ![]() You want a story and I will tell you one. ![]()
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