BOOK REVIEW OF AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED

And The Mountains Echoed.

AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, A BOOK BY KHALED HOSSEONI

Genre : Fiction

Pages : 404

Publisher : Bloomsbury

Language : English

They tell me I must wade into waters, Where I'll soon 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.

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.

People mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

Conclusion 

An epic tale filled with compelling characters forces to struggle for shape their lives. Plot makes the book a page turner, confuse, sensitive and powerful at the same time. And rejoice because world is big enough to create the happiness and swallow our grief altogether.

Rating

★★★★☆

4/5 Stars.