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And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini

Start date: June 18, 2013

Finish date: July 31, 2013

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Aug 01, 2013 Anurag rated it really liked it

An engaging read... an emotionally charged ride, as one has come to expect from Hosseini's works. I had heard and read that this was the author's best work so far, but for me it remained a notch or two below The Kite Runner. The story is fragmented across a bit too many characters and spread over one too many generations, to retain ones excitement. But despite this slight glitch, it remains a work to be savoured.. Recommended!! ...more

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Dec 20, 2013 Antonia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: i-own, historical-fiction

Πολύ καλό βιβλίο με όμορφη γραφή αλλά όχι τόσο δυνατή πλοκή. Δεν είμαι και τόσο σίγουρη αν θέλω να διαβάσω τα υπόλοιπα βιβλία του συγκεκριμένου συγγραφέα. Ίσως στο μέλλον όταν θα έχω όρεξη για ιστορική φαντασία τέτοιου είδους. :)

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Jan 07, 2014 Norma rated it really liked it

I really enjoyed this book, though there were so many characters I could hardly keep them straight (this is where the x-ray feature on my kindle really came in handy). I liked the characters and could picture and feel them, however, they got old too quickly. I would have liked to see more of their lives, Pari, Abdulla, as they grew up without each other. The cultural background was very interesting. All in all it was a good story about family and the power of love. I teared up a little at the en ...more

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Aug 18, 2013 Alka rated it really liked it

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Again a beautiful interwoven story. I was initially wary of reading Hosseni, his stories are so heart-rendingly tragic but this one was surprisingly gentle. It doesnt have absolute blackness of character or paralysing despair. Life goes on despite the losses n challenges. It didnt bring Afganistan alive as his other books had done. But i was kind of relieved to have read this one n felt like chiding myself for avoiding it for so long.

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Jun 11, 2014 Sumit Kathuria rated it really liked it

Khaled Hosseini is an exceptional storyteller. And the mountains echoed is, like his other two books, beautifully written. Having said that, I like this book least of the three. The background of Afghan wars, which lays the foundation of all his books, seemed to me a bit blur in this one. Also, it was not as compelling a read as the other two.

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