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And The Mountains Echoed is a family sega story that is primary build on the charming relationship between a brother and sister, born in Afghanistan but got separated for more than 50 years.
That's all am giving, to avoid spoilers.
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I've been a fan of Khaled Hosseini from the very first time I read his book. Due to his great storytelling skills, I read all other published books by him excluding this, despite his books wrecks me alot.
This remains me of how much growth I've attain on bookstagram because, I remembered vividly of the spoilers review I gave on The Kite Runner without me actually really knowing in full 🤦🏾.
Looking back now, Fumi is the one I felt sorry for the most (she was like spoilers, *for my mind I dey review book 😑😂).
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The style of writing in this book is quite different from the regular way Hosseini is known for in his previous novels.
Although, it had the regular theme in his novel which is refugees, war and it's effect.
But it wasn't as heartdrenching as his previous novels to me.
This story to me, is more like a collection of stories of family generations intertwining together from different location (from Shadbagh their origin to Kabul, Paris, France, Greece and America).
The themes cut across family, love, friendship, hardship, sexuality, privilege, betrayal, choices in life, frustration, loss, death, war and it's aftermath.
The stories were told through the perspective of nine different characters, with their individual personalities and at the end, all having a connection to one another.
One of reasons this novel didn't make it to some persons list, was because of the different characters and the way it went from present to past.
In my suggestion, they should have been a family tree picture for easy reference while reading.
I really did enjoy this novel, though I felt some characters were not necessary because, it didn't create enough space for us to get to know more about the main characters and most importantly, what happend to them.
I am curious to know about how it ended for Thalia, Markos and Odelia.
For Adel and his father, also if he ever get to cross path with Gholam.
All these are filled with unanswered question.
It was like, I've been with someone for long, got cozy with the person and then you decide to give me another person, thereby taking away the first person and expect me to just forget about him and get along with the new person.
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On the good side I really did enjoy this novel, the poetic prose was stunning, it was touching and had my emotions. I didn't have too much issues with the different characters.
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And The Mountains Echoed is a reminder to us, how the choices we get to make in life affects us in a great way, directly or indirectly.
How life doesn't seems to be unfair but regardless, we keep moving.
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Rating: 4/5 🌟
I recommend this, worth reading and if you haven't read The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Sun, you should definitely read them. But please with a box of tissue for the tears.
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Have you read Khaled's works, and how do you feel about them?
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PS: I was so happy for Abdullah and Pari at the end finally, but a little bit not happy with Abdullah state because I wish he could recall vividly.
Well it's better than not seeing at all still death.
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Opinion: Please help me decide, which among the two photos (1st or 2nd slide) would you prefer to see more.
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