And the mountains echoed

Perhaps the title of Khaled Hosseini's new novel is difficult for his previous readers, but it is one of his most consistent and emotional stories so far, more smooth and ambitious than "The Kite Runner" 2003, and the narration was more complex compared to "A Thousand Splendid Suns" 2007. "The Mountains" spans several generations and moves back and forth between Afghanistan and the West. The story begins with Abdullah and his sister Pari in Afghanistan and ends after more than fifty years, passing through stories of intertwined life paths in Athens - France - Pakistan - Afghanistan with an engaging plot and an astonishing realistic style. The novel connects with many themes that intersect with his previous two novels: the relationship between parents and children, the way the past influences the present, and it shares with them a tendency to draw a map of a region midway between the world of bold folklore and the mysterious foggy world of reality.