Echo of the Mountains is a 2013 book by American writer Khaled Husseini, and his other novel, The Kite Chaser, should be familiar to everyone.
"Echo of the Mountains" is also set in Afghanistan, with abdullah and Parly's sixty years of brother and sister's tragedy and joy as the main line, connecting the characters who intersected with them, telling the story of three generations forged by poverty and war between 1952 and 2010.
Loss is an important theme for the mountains to sing back, whether it is memory, sincerity or love, under this huge proposition is labeled compassion. "Echo of the Mountains" is a very tragic fairy tale that begins with cruelty and kindness as two sides of the same coin. The story told by the father hints at abdullah's irreversible parting from his sister Parry, as well as the creation of two completely different life trajectories that can only be met until they are old.
Both Parry and Abdullah have also become "victims of the passage of time": after Parie's departure, her brother Abdullah has been missing Parry and has been suffering for her for most of his life, while his younger sister Parie has forgotten him after leaving her brother. Although In the end, Parrie learns of her origins, remembers Abdullah and reunites with him in the United States, Abdullah suffers from Alzheimer's disease and has forgotten his sister.
"The question has been asked many times: whether 'memory' is a blessing that protects everything you cherish, or a curse that keeps you replaying the most painful moments of your life, the hardships, struggles and grief you have experienced," Husseini said. The combination of this series of events makes "Echo of the Mountains a bit like a completely subversive fairy tale" and "begins with a painful separation and ends with a touching reunion," yet the whole story and the final reunion "don't exactly meet the reader's expectations."
But Husseini thinks it's "just like life."
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At the same time, the writing method of "Echo of the Mountains" is also different from "The Kite Chaser", the whole book has a total of 9 chapters, each chapter is narrated in the first person by 9 different characters, and the time span is very long, and the design of the characters is also many, so when reading this book, it is best to read it in a short period of time, otherwise it is easy to forget the corresponding characters and not match the plot.
Because of the more plots, the book also explores multiple themes: family, love, friendship, growth, secrets, betrayal, and understanding. These hidden, sincere, humble, huge, short-lived, and enduring feelings are engraved in the intertwined chapters of life.
I'll end with a few classic quotes from the book:
1) Throughout our lives, we only look for the person we lost in the first place.
2, must have gains, some losses, in order to talk about courage.
3, today I saw the face I was looking for, I saw the closed moon shy flower can not measure the elegance
4) I learned to live by your side.
5. We shout at the top of the peaks, and the mountains sing back.
6) They think they live by what they want, but in reality, what dominates them is what they fear, what they don't want.
7) When one person evaluates the inner world of another person, it is best to have a certain degree of humility and tolerance.
8, I saw the sad little fairy staying under the shadow of the paper tree, I knew that the sad little fairy the evening wind blew her away.
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