And the Mountains Echoed

15 hrs. 41 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Khaled Hosseini

Narrator Alexey Bagdasarov

Description

1952, a starry night in the desert, a father tells an Afghan parable to his son and daughter. They have settled down for the night in the mountains on the way to Kabul. Holding their breath, Abdullah and little Pari listen to the story of how a boy was kidnapped by a terrible div, and the poor child faces the most dreadful fate in the world. The next morning the father and children continue their journey to Kabul, and that day will become the fork in their destinies. They will part, perhaps forever. The separation of brother and sister will give rise to several stories at once, intertwining and unraveling. And at the center of this web of life is Pari, named not after the French capital at all, but because that is what fairies are called in Farsi. Khaled Hosseini’s new novel, transparent, piercing, polyphonic, is about how any decision made for another person—for good or evil—has a price, and fate will surely present the bill. This is a novel about the power of cheap words and costly deeds, about the treachery of life’s calling, about the inevitability of retribution, about noisy cowardice and silent devotion.