And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

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E-newsletter Year: 2013 Layout: Hardcover
Language: English ISBN:

9781594631764

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9781594631764

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Synopsis
An unforgettable contemporary about discovering a misplaced fragment of yourself in somebody else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 Fresh York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Beautiful Suns , has written a brand new contemporary about how we esteem, how we gain care of every other, and the intention the picks we create resonate by intention of generations. In this myth revolving round no longer factual folks and children however brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many suggestions whereby households nurture, hurt, betray, honor, and sacrifice for every other; and the intention step by step we are vastly shocked by the actions of those closest to us, on the cases that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and picks and loves round the globe-from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos-the memoir expands gradually outward, changing into more emotionally complex and critical with every turning page.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 159463176X
ISBN-13 9781594631764
eBay Product ID (ePID) 150602790

Key Essential functions
Creator Khaled Hosseini
Quantity Of Pages 416 pages
Layout Hardcover
E-newsletter Date 2013-05-21
Language English
Creator Penguin Publishing Neighborhood
E-newsletter Year 2013

Dimensions
Weight 25.6 Oz19459034]
Height 1.4 In.
Width 6.5 In.
Dimension 9.5 In.

Target Target audience
Neighborhood Trade
Grade From 12
Age Vary 18

Classification Manner
LC Classification Quantity PS3608.O832A53 2013
Dewey Decimal 813.6
Dewey Model 23

Opinions
” And the Mountains Echo ed opens esteem a thunderclap. . . . [Hosseini] asks moral, laborious questions relating to the bounds of esteem. . . . Fancy, Hosseini looks to be to dispute, is the abundant leveler, reducing by intention of language, class, and identity. No one on this consuming contemporary is proof in opposition to its affect.” O, the Oprah Journal “With his third and most ambitious contemporary but, Hosseini makes it certain that he”s no longer ready to relaxation on his Substantial Title. . . . While it hits your entire Hosseini sweet spotsnostalgia, devastating particulars, triumph over the percentages And the Mountains Echoed covers more ground, both geographically and emotionally, than his outdated works. It”s no longer until Hosseini makes the unconventional diminutive all as soon as more, for the poignant conclusion, that you fully treasure what he”s executed.” Leisure Weekly (A) “Transports you entire into the otherworldly geographical regions Hosseini builds in Kabul, Paris, San Francisco, and the Greek islands. . . . There”s something most fundamental and delightful relating to the easy want to rep misplaced in a memoir, and Hosseini is an professional manufacturer of which possess.” Harper’s Bazaar “Adore a sculptor working in a cozy medium, [Hosseini] gently molds and shapes particular person items that indirectly match collectively in a essential work. . . . Family issues in suggestions diminutive and attention-grabbing on this contemporary. Whether or no longer or no longer the connections are visible, they exist then all as soon as more. Hosseini looks to be to be telling us that the model we care is who we are and, indirectly, the face we prove to existence.” Fresh York Day after day Data “Readers” tears might perchance well perchance merely fall by first chapter”s extinguish . . . Introspective and perfectly paced, Hosseini”s microcosmic home spares no expense with sensory particulars. Every persona . . . captivates. Hosseini skillfully weaves the tapestry with universal parts: human fallibility, innate goodness, perseverance, forgiveness, sexuality, jealousy, companionship, and joy. But his words are never sugarcoated: The brutality of existence is on show, and of us are confirmed factual as they’re, for greater or worse. Poverty and gender roles coast away scars, whereas transferring functions of survey show Hosseini”s prism of truth. The heartbreaks are no longer supposed for shock cost, however they set apart linger. And the Mountains Echoed resonates to the core.” Austin Story “Adore [Hosseini’s] outdated books, the new contemporary is a complex mosaic, a portrait of the Afghan diaspora as it is miles folded into the West and of those left in the attend of. . . . The guide is elevated by a solid sense of parable and a few finely drawn characters and is inventively constructed as it leaps from advise to advise.” Esquire “Devoted readers will rep it price the wait.” Patriot Ledger “Hosseini returns with an at the moment relatable contemporary that follows generations of a shrinking family valid by intention of the Center East.” Marie Claire “The honest writing, corpulent of universal truths of loss and identity, makes every allotment a jewel . . . Hosseini’s survey for detail and emotional geography makes this a haunting be taught.” Publishers Weekly “Exciting and affecting . . . A masterful and compassionate storyteller, Hosseini traces the traumas and scarring of tyranny, war, crime, lies, and sickness in the intricately interconnected, heartbreaking, and transcendent lives of his vibrantly realized characters to rep a immense and encompassing tree of existence.” Booklist (starred overview) “Hosseini weaves a unbelievable tapestry of disparate characters joined by threads of blood and fate. . . . In this uplifting and deeply fulfilling guide, Hosseini shows an optimism no longer so evident in his outdated works. Readers might perchance be clamoring for it.” Library Journal (starred overview) “In And the Mountains Echoed , Khaled Hosseini gifts a vast number of dwelling windows into the souls stricken by these events. The contemporary”s prosperous kaleidoscope of pictures coalesces round one theme: the critical and step by step excruciating legacy of family ties contained in the maelstrom of history.” Shelf Awareness “Fiction Top Pick . . . Keen . . . “Adore [Hosseini’s] outdated books, the new contemporary is a complex mosaic, a portrait of the Afghan diaspora as it is miles folded into the West and of those left in the attend of. . . . The guide is elevated by a solid sense of parable and a few finely drawn characters and is inventively constructed as it leaps from advise to advise.” Esquire “A guide we can no longer take a seat up for in 2013 . . . [Hosseini] broadens the scope with a multigenerational family saga that takes role in areas round the enviornment.” Leisure Weekly “Hosseini returns with an at the moment relatable contemporary that follows generations of a shrinking family valid by intention of the Center East.” Marie Claire “The honest writing, corpulent of universal truths of loss and identity, makes every allotment a jewel . . . Hosseini’s survey for detail and emotional geography makes this a haunting be taught.” Publishers Weekly “Exciting and affecting . . . A masterful and compassionate storyteller, Hosseini traces the traumas and scarring of tyranny, war, crime, lies, and sickness in the intricately interconnected, heartbreaking, and transcendent lives of his vibrantly realized characters to rep a immense and encompassing tree of existence.” Booklist (starred overview) “Hosseini weaves a unbelievable tapestry of disparate characters joined by threads of blood and fate. . . . In this uplifting and deeply fulfilling guide, Hosseini shows an optimism no longer so evident in his outdated works. Readers might perchance be clamoring for it.” Library Journal (starred overview) “In And the Mountains Echoed , Khaled Hosseini gifts a vast number of dwelling windows into the souls stricken by these events. The contemporary’s prosperous kaleidoscope of pictures coalesces round one theme: the critical and step by step excruciating legacy of family ties contained in the maelstrom of history.” Shelf Awareness “Fiction Top Pick . . . Keen . . . Ultimately, And the Mountains Echoed is relating to the human endeavor to transcend incompatibility.” Bookpage “[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally consuming memoir but . . . Hosseini’s memoir items possess deepened over time. . . . [And the Mountains Echoed ] grapples with many of the the same subject issues that crisscross his early novels: the relationship between folks and children, and the suggestions the past can hang-out the sizzling. And it shares the same penchant for mapping terrain midway between the boldly colored world of fantasy and the more unlit, gloomy world of realism… [W]e enact this contemporary with an intimate determining of who his characters are and the intention they’ve defined themselves over time by intention of the picks they’ve made between accountability and freedom, familial responsibilities and independence, loyalty to dwelling and exile in a foreign country… a deeply affecting choral work… a testomony both to his intimate recordsdata of their internal lives, and to his energy as an worn-fashioned storyteller. “Michiko Kakutani, The Fresh York Times “The Kite Runner author’s latest is a enchanting saga about sacrifice, betrayal, and the energy of family. . . . Extra sizable than The Kite Runner and A Thousand Beautiful Suns , the unconventional spans three generations and entails overlapping tales of expatriates and reduction workers, folks and children, doctors and drug lords. Hosseini shows how easy it is miles for folk to brutalize or abandon those they would perchance perchance merely nonetheless provide protection to. But his closing achievement is demonstrating the energy and persistence of family.” Folks (4 stars) “[Hosseini’s] beautifully written, masterfully crafted new guide, And the Mountains Echoed , spans practically 60 years of Afghan history as it investigates the penalties of a desperate act that scars two younger lives and resonates by intention of many others. . . . And the Mountains Echoed is painfully unhappy however additionally elegant with esteem: the enduring bond of a brother and sister; the morose however bedrock connection of cousins; the nonetheless intimacy of master and servant who change into chums; the commitment of a health care provider and nurse to war”s victims. To underscore esteem”s centrality and contingency, Hosseini closes with a image drawn from a dream: a snapshot of bygone happiness your entire more treasured in retrospect because we know the intention fragile it is miles.” Los Angles Times ” And the Mountains Echo ed opens esteem a thunderclap. . . . [Hosseini] asks moral, laborious questions relating to the bounds of esteem. . . . Fancy, Hosseini looks to be to dispute, is the abundant leveler, reducing by intention of language, class, and identity. No one on this consuming contemporary is proof in opposition to its affect.” O, the Oprah Journal “With his third and most ambitious contemporary but, Hosseini makes it certain that he”s no longer ready to relaxation on his Substantial Title. . . . While it hits your entire Hosseini sweet spotsnostalgia, devastating particulars, triumph over the percentages And the Mountains Echoed covers more ground, both geographically and emotionally, than his outdated works. It”s no longer until Hosseini makes the unconventional diminutive all as soon as more, for the poignant conclusion, that you fully treasure what he”s executed.” Leisure Weekly (A) “I’m no longer a straightforward contact by manner of novels, however Hosseini’s new guide, And the Mountains Echoed , had tears shedding from my eyes by Net page forty five. . . . Or no longer it is laborious to reach justice to a contemporary this prosperous in a transient overview. There are a dozen things I nonetheless desire to dispute relating to the rhyming pairs of characters, the echoing eventualities, the assorted takes on honesty, loneliness, class and poverty, the transformation of emotions into physical ailments. As an more than a few, I will factual add this: Send Hosseini up the bestseller listing all as soon as more.” Washington Submit “The genius of Khaled Hosseini”s novelsincluding his handiest-promoting The Kite Runner and A Thousand Beautiful Suns , as smartly as his latest, the masterly And the Mountains Echoed is that they pull off the attention-grabbing trick of embodying and transcending the essence of a job. . . . Right here’s an even contemporary, a need to-be taught for anyone with an passion in what it manner to be alive, anyplace and in each role.” USA Right now time “There is an assured, charismatic new maturity to Hosseini”s advise. Praise for The Kite Runner “A substantial guide . . . an intimate yarn of family and friendship, betrayal and salvation that requires no atlas or translation to speak and exclaim us.” The Washington Submit E book World “This critical first contemporary . . . tells a memoir of fierce cruelty and fierce but redeeming esteem. . . . Hosseini presents us a colorful and attention-grabbing memoir that reminds us how long his of us were struggling to beat the forces of violenceforces that proceed to threaten them even nowadays.” The Fresh York Times E book Review “A unbelievable first contemporary . . . an improbable memoir of the culture. Or no longer it is an worn-fashioned roughly contemporary that basically sweeps you away.” San Francisco Story Praise for A Thousand Beautiful Suns “Spectacular . . . Hosseini’s writing makes our hearts ache, our stomachs clench and our emotions reel.” USA Right now time “Upright as moral as, if no longer greater than, Hosseini’s handiest-promoting first guide, The Kite Runner .” Newsweek “Hosseini has the storytelling gift.” Los Angeles Times “[Love] is the emotionsubterranean, critical, honest, illicit, and infinitely patientthat suffuses the pages.” O: The Oprah Journal

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