From the no. 1 bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, the book that readers everywhere have been waiting for: his first novel in six years.
Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and
beloved novelists in the world, with over thirty eight million
copies of his books sold in more than seventy countries. The Kite
Runner was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The
Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was
the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. Hosseini is also
a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency and the founder of The Khaled
Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides
humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born
in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California.
www.khaledhosseini.com
A story of love, separation, friendship, compassion, exile, memory
and the troubled history of Afghanistan, spanning three continents
and 60 years... Hosseini is a master storyteller and his characters
brim with life... This novel will not disappoint his many
admirers
*The Times*
Hosseini’s evocative tales don’t just capture hearts, they break
them
*Glamour*
I defy any critics less high-minded than, say, F.R. Leavis not to
enjoy the sheer zest with which Hosseini goes about his business
here – or admire the unhurried confidence with which he sweeps
through the years. And if they do admit that resistance is futile
and allow their heartstrings to be shamelessly tugged, they might
spot something else as well: in its admittedly unsubtle way, the
novel gives a thorough airing to the central question of whether
it’s better to stay true to your roots or rise above them ... Let’s
face it, Hosseini is a master storyteller
*Spectator*
Fascinating and moving
*Stylist*
A profoundly moving story of how families love, betray, honour and
make sacrifices for each other
*Woman & Home*
We defy you not to cry
*Asos*
Yes, there will be tears
*InStyle*
Heart warming and beautiful
*Essentials*
Clever and moving
*Easy Living*
Hosseini pulls off his usual – impressive – trick of breaking your
heart and leaving you smiling
*Daily Telegraph*
Tremendously moving
*Daily Express*
Touching and epic
*Sunday Telegraph*
A worthy successor … Part of Hosseini’s effectiveness as a
storyteller is the way he draws on universal signifiers of myth and
symbol … In mining such truths about human experience, Hosseini
digs deep and brings up diamonds
*Independent on Sunday*
A touching story of love across time and continents
*Sunday Express*
Takes you on an irresistible treasure trail of stories from Kabul
to Paris, via San Francisco and the Greek island of Tinos …
Hosseini’s characters are beautifully drawn … For a novel that will
change how you judge yourself and others, it has to be Hosseini
*Stylist*
I was looking forward to sinking into the lush narrative of Khaled
Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed … Hosseini’s book is an
absorbing read. His characters are nuanced and their overlapping
narratives stay with you. It’s a heartbreaking and beautifully told
story of sibling love and loss
*Stylist*
The key to Hosseini’s story-telling is to keep us constantly
guessing … Hosseini has a gift for lyrical description, but the
chief merit of his style is a simplicity that allows him to go
straight to the heart. He has written a magnificent, compassionate,
life-affirming novel
*Mail on Sunday*
A beautifully narrated tale ... It is impossible to read Hosseini’s
novels without feeling at times that your heart is being ripped out
and yet somehow you finish the novel feeling as if you have been
given a very special gift
*Lady*
A heartbreaking story of enduring sibling love
*Good Housekeeping*
Hosseini goes straight to the heart of the matter in this
magnificent, compassionate, life-affirming novel
*Irish Mail*
His third engrossing tale of life, love, hope, despair and
redemption set against the backdrop of war-ravaged Afghanistan ...
The novel’s poignant, bitter-sweet conclusion will almost certainly
bring tears to your eyes — devotees of the emotionally charged Kite
Runner would expect no less
*Daily Mail*
Emotionally wrenching
*Scottish Daily Express*
He is a master of that principle: get your readers where they want
to go, but not in the way they expect ... And the Mountains Echoed
charges its readers for the emotional particles they are, giving
them what they want with a narrative facility as great as any
blockbusting author alive
*Observer*
This is a shamelessly enjoyable book
*Guardian*
He brings a real, human Afghanistan to life in a way that endless
news stories about bombs and the Taliban can’t ... The mountains
echo with the voices and events from the past and the ripples
extend outwards beyond the final page
*Daily Express*
His most assured and emotionally gripping story yet ... Succeed[s]
in spinning his characters’ lives into a deeply affecting choral
work is a testament both to his intimate knowledge of their inner
lives and to his power as an old-fashioned storyteller
*International Herald Tribune*
And the Mountains Echoed opens like a thunderclap...From this
dramatic opening spins a constellation of star-crossed
characters...Love, Hosseini seems to say, is the great leveller,
cutting through language, class, and identity. No one in this
gripping novel is immune to its impact
*O - The Oprah Magazine*
Hosseini plants seeds and uncovers secrets with the sure hand of a
master storyteller. His tales leave a lingering, haunting
impression
*Metro*
His best yet
*Scotsman*
This universality and humanity may well be why millions of readers
devour Hosseini’s books. I read And the Mountains Echoed in a
single sitting — it is an absorbing read from a master
storyteller
*Financial Times*
An exquisitely rendered study of familial bonds ... And the
Mountains Echoed moves deftly between generations and countries ...
The novel is a dizzying array of voices and places that allows the
reader to luxuriate in Hosseini’s rich, textured language. Hosseini
is a masterful storyteller
*Literary Review*
Heartbreaking
*Grazia*
A profoundly moving novel, undoubtedly one of the year’s
highlights. It is also Mr Hosseini’s best and most ambitious work
yet
*Irish Examiner*
Another sweeping, breath-taking novel from the author of The Kite
Runner
*Daily Express*
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