And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini So then. You
want a story and I will tell you one…Afghanistan 1952.
Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and
stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father
Saboor is constantly in search of work and they struggle
together through poverty and brutal winters. To Abdullah
Pari – as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for
which she was named – is everything. More like a parent
than a brother Abdullah will do anything for her even
trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her
treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in
their cot their heads touching their limbs tangled. One
day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with
their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate
that awaits them there for the event which unfolds will
tear their lives apart; sometimes a finger must be cut to
save the hand. Crossing generations and continents moving
from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island
of Tinos with profound wisdom depth insight and compassion
Khaled Hosseini writes about the bonds that define us and
shape our lives the ways in which we help our loved ones
in need how the choices we make resonate through history
and how we are often surprised by the people closest to
us.