And the mountains echoed
Title:
And the mountains echoed
Author:
Hosseini, Khaled.
ISBN:
9781408850053
Publication Information:
London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Physical Description:
466 p. ; 18 cm
Abstract:
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.
Geographic Term:
Subject:
| Families -- Fiction. |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. |
| Brothers and sisters -- Fiction. |
| Community life -- Fiction. |
| Afghanistan -- Fiction. |
| Domestic fiction. |
| Historical fiction. |
Summary:
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.