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And the Mountains Echoed

By: Khaled Hosseini
Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini, Navid Negahban, Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Summary

On May 21, 2013, the new novel from Khaled Hosseini: an unforgettable story about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.

Khaled Hosseini, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each passing minute.

©2013 Khaled Hosseini (P)2013 Penguin Audio
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Editors Select, May 2013 - When it’s been six years since a best-selling author’s last book, there is a heightened sense of anticipation and high expectations surrounding that next new release. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini is the perfect example of this, and does not disappoint. An expansive family saga, both modern and mythic, the story begins in a small Afghan town in the 1950s and follows one family through time and across the globe to France, California, and Greece. While there is a broad sweeping sense of the effect of one generation on the next, it’s the personal relationships between siblings that I found the most memorable; in particular how Abdullah, a 10-year-old boy, becomes the caretaker to his three-year-old sister, Pari, and does so with love, skill, and absolutely no hesitation or resentment. Their forced separation is the catalyst that creates the conflict and momentum that propels the story beyond Afghanistan and into the larger world. I look forward to the audio (including the author’s narration) and then to Hosseini’s next book, regardless of when that may be. Tricia, Audible Editor

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Beautifully intricated

Read all of Khaled Hosseini's books in the past two weeks and I am enchanted by his style. Those are those type of books you can not put down once started. This one was geniusly written and the detailed level of character description is transposing you in their world. A world of unimaginable pain, but also beauty, friendship, love, passion and determination

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I loved it

I loved this beautifully written book. I could clearly see the places and people as if I was among them. I began to panic towards the end as the time was running down simply because I didn’t want it to end.

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great performance but not his best story

it felt like connected short stories instead of 1 narrative. could have really done without the 2 chapters in the latter half based on Marco's. it was ambitious but did not quite hit like his earlier novels, still a good book that I recommend reading if you like his work.

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Amazing

Amazing and like all his other books could not be put down :) struggled with some of the audio accents had to really pay attention but all in all a great book,

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