Published in 2013 by Riverhead Books, And the Mountains Echoed is the third novel by the Afghan-American Author Khaled Hosseini.
Synopsis
This Historical Fiction Drama is a deviation from the Author's style of writing and focuses on one main character.
The book is written much like a collection of short stories and each chapter focuses on one lead character and all of these culminate into one at the end adding meaning to the plot. The novel brings out the relationship between a ten-year-old boy, Abdullah and his three-year-old sister, Pari. Their father decides to sell her to a childless couple in Kabul, which is the event that brings all the narratives together. Buy this book at Snapdeal and get a glimpse of the lives of children in the far east.
About the Author
Khaled Hosseini was born in Afghanistan but has lived in America from a very young age. He is a doctor and has published two books before And the Mountains Echoed. The Author was moved by what he witnessed in Afghanistan when he had visited with the UN Refugee Agency. The culminating event in the story, which is a parent's choice to sell his kid, is based on the plight of the impoverished children there.
