And the Mountains Echoed

By Khaled Hosseini

Subjects: American fiction, Frères et sœurs, McFadden Lecturer, Fiction subjects, Enfants, Reading Level-Grade 12, Families, Large type books, Fiction, historical, New York Times bestseller, Community life, Fiction, historical, general, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Romans, nouvelles, Chang pian xiao shuo, Interpersonal relations, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2013-06-09, Fiction, family life, Reading Level-Grade 8, Peoples & cultures - fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, New York Times reviewed, Familles, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Communauté, Brothers and sisters, World literature, Reading Level-Grade 10, Communaute, Afghanistan, fiction

Description: 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 the large and small manners in which it echoes through the lives of so many other people-is proof of the moral complexity of life. This story begins in 1952 Afghanistan with two motherless siblings and moves through complex relationships and generations to the United States, Paris, and Greece, weaving a story of commitment, love, honor, and sacrifice. The plot contains violence.