Williamsburg Regional Library

And the mountains echoed, Khaled Hosseini

eng

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fiction

And the mountains echoed

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Khaled Hosseini

This family saga spans six decades, beginning in 1952, transports readers from Afghanistan to France, Greece, and the United States. Several disparate characters tell his or her version of the same story of selfishness and selflessness, acceptance and forgiveness and love. 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. Pari is sold for adoption to a wealthy poet, Nila Wahdati, and her husband, Suleiman. Thalia, a disfigured young woman, is abandoned by her mother. Markos, a doctor who travels the world healing strangers, avoids his sick mother back home

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