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By : Usman Imran (16237)
Novel : And the Mountains EchoedBY Khaled Hosseini
About Author
Author : Khaled Hosseini
Born : Kabul ,Afganistan(1965)
Genre : Fiction
Published Books
The Kite Runner (Best seller 2003)
Thousand Splendid Sun (#1 on nearly every national bestseller list 2007)
And the Mountains Echoed (2013)
Theme of Book•The separation of the two siblings, Abdullah and Pari, is "the heart of the book".
•Selfless Love
• Pain
•Relationships
•Family
Title Relevance to Story
•“The Nurse’s Song,” a poem by William Blake ends a versewith the line “And all the hills echoed.”
•Maidan - e- Sabz surrounded by mountains
•Shadbagh village surrounded by mountains
Characters (Major)Abdullah : brother of Pari taking care of her until she was sold by their father to a wealthy family
Pari: daughter of Saboor. she is sold to a wealthy couple at the age of three
Saboor:father of Pari and Abdullah. He sells Pari to a wealthy family in hopes of her living a better life
Parwana: stepmother of Pari and Abdullah.
Nabi: older brother of Parwana and Masooma and uncle of Pari and Abdullah. He works for a wealthy couple, Nila and Suleiman Wahdati, and con-nects them with Saboor and his family to help them adopt a child.
Nila Wahdati:sexual poet ,self-loving , extremely beautiful. she and her husband adopt Pari. When her husband suffers a stroke, she takes Pari with her to Paris to live a "free“ life
Suleiman Wahdati: wealthy businessman who adopts Pari
Characters (Minors) Taimur Bashiri : arrogant neighbor that lived down the street from the Wahdati's. He and his family move to America because of the Rus-sian invasion but he later returns with his cousin to his homeland to visit
Idris :, polite ,self-observing doctor and cousin of taimur who get at-tached with a injured girl roshi but then distance himself after going back to America .
Amra Ademovic:a Bosnian nurse who cares for and eventually adopts an orphan named Roshi
Roshi: Afghan girl, Roshi, who suffers injuries and has no family
Markos Varvaris: Greek doctor who moved into Wahdati's former home. He operates on children who were injured because of war
Thalia: sweetheart of Markos with a facial deformity because of a dog attack
Pari: the daughter of Abdullah, named after his lost sister
Masooma : paralyzed sister of parwana and Nabi
CharactersSultana: Abdullah’s wife.
Iqbal : Abdullah’s Half Brother
Adel: Son of a war lord who has taken Saboor property
Ghulam: Son of iqbal
Odie: Markos Mother
Madaline: Thalia Mother
Summary"You want a story and I will tell you one,"
Summary (contd)9 Chapters
402 pages
Multiple Tales
revolving around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Fran-cisco to the Greek island of Tinos
Tales 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
the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emo-tionally complex and powerful with each turning page
Summary (contd)Chapter #1: ( Fall 1952 : Story of Baba ayub and div)Chapter #2 : ( Fall 1952 :Journey and Sepration)Chapter #3 : ( Spring 1949 :Story of Masooma and Parwana)Chapter #4 : ( Story of Nabi)Chapter #5 : ( Spring 2003 :Story of ROSHI)Chapter #6 : ( Spring 1974 :Story of Nila Wahdati/Pari)Chapter #7 : ( Summer 2003 :Story of Adel)Chapter #8 : ( Fall 2010:Story of Markos)Chapter #9 : ( Winter 2010 :Story of Pari (Abdullah Daughter) )
What I liked about this Book?
Start of the Novel "You want a story and I will tell you one,“
Story of Baba Ayub and Qais
Sacrifices of Saboor
The Character of Pari and Abdullah when they were child and their endless love
The story of Roshi
Sacrifices of Masooma
Character of Odie and her attitude and actions regarding Thalia
Thalia and Markos become friends when Thalia shows him how to make a camera.
What I Disliked ?
Ending
Hosseni should have written an extra Chapter about theLife of abdullah after sepration
Reviews4.1/5 by goodreads
4/5 the telegraph
‘Exquisite’... A must read’ – USA TODAY
‘Deeply Affecting’ –NEW YORK TIMES
‘Gripping’ – O-THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
‘Beautiful Written’ –LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘Ambitious’ – ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
‘Powerful’ – ASSOCIATED PRESS
‘Genius’ – WASHINGTON POST
‘Haunting’-HOUSTAN CHRONICLE
‘Beautiful’ - HARPAR’S BAZAR