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And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
**spoiler alert** And The Mountains Echoed is supposed to be one of Hosseini's least popular books. While starting to read it, I kind of understood why: you have to really stay with the novel to figure it out because there are so many characters and so many stories happening simultaneously, you don't know where one is ending and the other is beginning.
But that, I feel, is the magic of Hosseini. He manages to handle so many diverse, yet interconnected stories and also keep the readers engaged. Absolutely magical.
We have Pari and Abdullah's relationship. He is so protective of her, it's almost as if he's both her parent and her sibling. But we see them torn apart and then lose contact altogether until Abdullah's daughter, also named Pari, contacts her aunt. What dynamic!
I particularly liked how the entire novel, and all of the stories depict the realities of life: there are some relationships that are fleeting: they may be potent while they last but they don't last long; there are parents who don't know how to parent; secret love stories in the most unexpected places; and a whole lot of wondrous interconnections between yourself and someone you may have met once in your life. We see how some people have no love for anyone, and how much love parents have for their children. It speaks of the price of growing up.
EDIT: As I am posting this review in 2023 from Goodreads, i have become more aware of Hosseini's problem areas and will not be reading any of his other works or marketing any of his works.
But that, I feel, is the magic of Hosseini. He manages to handle so many diverse, yet interconnected stories and also keep the readers engaged. Absolutely magical.
We have Pari and Abdullah's relationship. He is so protective of her, it's almost as if he's both her parent and her sibling. But we see them torn apart and then lose contact altogether until Abdullah's daughter, also named Pari, contacts her aunt. What dynamic!
I particularly liked how the entire novel, and all of the stories depict the realities of life: there are some relationships that are fleeting: they may be potent while they last but they don't last long; there are parents who don't know how to parent; secret love stories in the most unexpected places; and a whole lot of wondrous interconnections between yourself and someone you may have met once in your life. We see how some people have no love for anyone, and how much love parents have for their children. It speaks of the price of growing up.
EDIT: As I am posting this review in 2023 from Goodreads, i have become more aware of Hosseini's problem areas and will not be reading any of his other works or marketing any of his works.