And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseni
Finally. Finally. Finally.
I have been waiting for this since forever...really, since I read The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. The book came out, and I really should have just caved and bought it at the bookstore (I still might do that once it comes out in paperback). I waited and waited for my turn to come up on the library waiting list. I was on 2 different library systems' wait lists, each a couple hundred people long. Luckily, I had the foresight to join the wait list in early April! I was within the first 100 on both lists!
I read this book incredibly quickly, and I know I'll need another read in a year or so. It was incredible. Khaled Hosseni is one of the best story tellers I have ever read. His stories are intricate, well thought out, and express a foreign (to me) culture in a way that is appreciable and understanding. Other authors are at least somewhat predictable, but not Hosseni. I had no clue what would happen in the next chapter or page.
This book was well crafted, intriguing, heart-wrenching, and incredible. I highly recommend it, especially to anyone who has read The Kite Runner and/or A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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