And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
Literary Fiction
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
—· 430 p· 2013
NYT Bestsellerreflectivehaunting
Overview
About
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother 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 Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. What happens to them-and…
Pages
430
10 X 18
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Emotional depth10
Intergenerational Structure10
Moral Complexity9
Worldbuilding8
Prose8
Narration8
Plot twists7
Pacing7
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