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• W92364918 abstract "Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed sees the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns return to his native Afghanistan once more with a story of sacrifice and its consequences. It begins in 1952 as young siblings Abdullah and Pari are led by their father Saboor across the desert, towards a meeting which will tear them apart: Pari is to be sold to a rich couple to allow the rest of the family to survive the winter, the finger cut to save the hand. We follow the consequences of this decision for those involved, and how this then affects others near them, in a series of nine narratives from different perspectives. The narration moves from the siblings' step-mother Parwana in 1949 to Adbullah's daughter in 2010, from a poor village in Afghanistan to the suburbs of the United States, but each story is linked to the others and the siblings in some way. It truly is a novel of echoes.The narrative styles used for these different sections vary widely. We are first given an almost campfire-like experience with Saboor reciting a fairytale to his two children, Abdullah and Pari; this is a first-person present tense story framed by third-person past tense narration. We then move into Abdullah's mind the following day as he walks with his father and sister toward Kabul, in a simple third-person past tense section. Parwana, Saboor's wife and Abdullah and Pari's stepmother, then tells the story of how she came to be with her husband in third-person present tense with flashbacks to the past. Nabi, Parwana's older brother, gives us a letter he has written in first-person which switches between the present, at the time of his writing, and the past events that led to and followed Pari's adoption. Idris, who lived across the street from Pari's adoptive family as a boy, tells us of his return to Afghanistan after the war in pure present-tense. Pari's account of her life in Paris, from her tumultuous relationship with her adoptive mother Nila Wahdati to the raising of her own children, is in third-person present tense with past flashbacks, and is also interspersed with excerpts from a magazine interview with Nila. Adel, the young son of an Afghan war criminal and the narrator who is perhaps most tenuously connected to the central story, tells us in third-person present tense of his meeting with Iqbal, Abdullah and Pari's half-brother. Markos Varvaris, the doctor who moves into the Wahdati residence after they are gone, speaks to us in first-person present tense, again with past tense flashbacks, and finally young Pari, Adbullah's daughter who is named for his lost sister, narrates her search for her namesake in first-person present tense with flashbacks. It is clear from this list that readers may occasionally feel lost with the shifts of both character and style, but it is a credit to the author that this feeling of displacement at the beginning of a new chapter never lasts long.Even though the style of the novel may change completely between different sections, these are always linked together in some way. …" @default.
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