And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

“A story of love, separation, friendship, compassion, exile, memory and the troubled history of Afghanistan, spanning three continents and sixty years...Hosseini is a master storyteller.” The Times

Khaled Hosseini’s breathtaking novels are loved the world over and have sold a staggering 38 million copies. He is a critically acclaimed master storyteller and his third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, explores the enduring strength of sibling love.

With his signature storytelling – and a cast of characters you fall in love with instantly – he shows us how one decision, made out of love, can ripple through generations and touch so many lives. This is a book you want to talk about with friends, colleagues, even with strangers on the bus (and yes, it will make you cry).

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...

Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Parilive with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything.

More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their skulls touching, their limbs tangled. One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart.

Crossing generations and continents, moving from Kabul, to Paris, to San Francisco, to the Greek island of Tinos, Khaled Hosseini writes about the bonds that define us and shape our lives and how the choices we make resonate through history.

Khaled Hosseini is one of most widely read and beloved novelists in the world, with his best-selling books sold in more than seventy countries. The Kite Runner was made into a 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 non 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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