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And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
This was no ordinary novel to read. This book felt like an elevator ride. Meaning, when you use stairs you start at the bottom floor and make your way up staying certain period of time at each floor. First floor, second, third and so on. But no one rides an elevator like that. You start at the bottom and go straight to one of the upper floors, skipping everything inbetween, then you go down a few floors, back up and so on. It makes you dizzy and confused but you love it. That pretty much sums up my experience reading this book. It was like a rollercoaster ride – full of fear for the characters but also full of hope, kindness and positivity.
In the process of reading this book I got to know all these fascinating people, each with a different perspective on life. Each with their strenghts and their faults. At one point it almost felt like there was too much information. With the wings of this novel I travelled from 1929 to 2010 through countries like Afghanistan, France, Greece, USA. You would think that everything was too confusing, too complicated. For some it would be a burden. For me it was an abundance.
To be honest, I hadn’t even started to read this book when I already knew it would be my favorīte. And to no surprise for me it did live up to my expectations if not exceeded them.
Before this novel I had read only one more of Khaled Hosseini’s three novels. And instantly he became my favorīte author/storyteller. I just know that he has this out of this world ability to put words we all use in our every day lives in such order that they make people cry and smile and feel everything all at once. I can’t comprehend how one using an alphabet can make a 450+ page long spell that hypnotizes you, makes you forget about the real world around you and draws you right in this fictional universe. Like the quote in this exact novel: „Was (s)he merely a gifted trickster? A magician, with a pen for a wand, able to move an audience by conjuring emotions she had never known herself? Was that even possible?”
For Khaled Hosseini’s books I don’t have expectations, I just let his stories take me wherever their characters go.
„A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”
What I like about this book the most are the relationships portrayed. If The Kite Runner was a great portrayal of father and son relatinship, then this was even greater portrayal of the relationship between siblings. And also for some unknown reason I am drawn to Afghan culture. I think it was when I was reading The Kite Runner when I first fell in love it. I have never come in direct contact with this culture, not that I recall, but from reading books alone it has left a great impact on me. It has teached me so much and I will forever be thankful for that. Oh, what a country would Afghanistan be if only it wasn’t „a thousand tragedies per square mile..”
As I have mentioned previously, this novel isn’t an easy read. Though, the story is far beyond great, there is a fight to get through to reach the end of the book. And I am afraid not everyone could survive it.
But to those who don’t fear challenges, have a thing for the complicated and to those who are ready for their heart to be ripped out and put back in place several times to make you die a little inside and then come back to life – this is the book for you!
(from the book review I handed in for my english class)
In the process of reading this book I got to know all these fascinating people, each with a different perspective on life. Each with their strenghts and their faults. At one point it almost felt like there was too much information. With the wings of this novel I travelled from 1929 to 2010 through countries like Afghanistan, France, Greece, USA. You would think that everything was too confusing, too complicated. For some it would be a burden. For me it was an abundance.
To be honest, I hadn’t even started to read this book when I already knew it would be my favorīte. And to no surprise for me it did live up to my expectations if not exceeded them.
Before this novel I had read only one more of Khaled Hosseini’s three novels. And instantly he became my favorīte author/storyteller. I just know that he has this out of this world ability to put words we all use in our every day lives in such order that they make people cry and smile and feel everything all at once. I can’t comprehend how one using an alphabet can make a 450+ page long spell that hypnotizes you, makes you forget about the real world around you and draws you right in this fictional universe. Like the quote in this exact novel: „Was (s)he merely a gifted trickster? A magician, with a pen for a wand, able to move an audience by conjuring emotions she had never known herself? Was that even possible?”
For Khaled Hosseini’s books I don’t have expectations, I just let his stories take me wherever their characters go.
„A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”
What I like about this book the most are the relationships portrayed. If The Kite Runner was a great portrayal of father and son relatinship, then this was even greater portrayal of the relationship between siblings. And also for some unknown reason I am drawn to Afghan culture. I think it was when I was reading The Kite Runner when I first fell in love it. I have never come in direct contact with this culture, not that I recall, but from reading books alone it has left a great impact on me. It has teached me so much and I will forever be thankful for that. Oh, what a country would Afghanistan be if only it wasn’t „a thousand tragedies per square mile..”
As I have mentioned previously, this novel isn’t an easy read. Though, the story is far beyond great, there is a fight to get through to reach the end of the book. And I am afraid not everyone could survive it.
But to those who don’t fear challenges, have a thing for the complicated and to those who are ready for their heart to be ripped out and put back in place several times to make you die a little inside and then come back to life – this is the book for you!
(from the book review I handed in for my english class)