And the Mountains Echoed

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.

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

Places: Afghanistan,  Afghānistān,  mei guo

Times: xian dai