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“This achingly beautiful book about love, family, and the choices we make to survive…globe trots around the heart.”
— Family Circle
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“A moving saga about sacrifice,
betrayal, and the power of family…Hosseini shows how easy it is for people to brutalize or
abandon those they should protect. But his ultimate achievement is
demonstrating the power and persistence of family.”
— People (four stars)
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“This is an exquisite novel, a
must-read for anyone with an interest in what it means to be alive, anywhere
and everywhere.”
— USA Today
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“His third and
most ambitious novel…hits all the Hosseini sweet spots—nostalgia,
devastating details, triumph over the odds...[but] covers more ground, both geographically and emotionally.”
— Entertainment Weekly
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“[Hosseini’s] most
assured and emotionally gripping story yet…A testament both to his intimate knowledge of their inner
lives, and to his power as an old-fashioned storyteller.”
— New York Times
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“And
the Mountains Echoed is powerful and haunting. And much like the country it
describes, it is not easy to forget.”
— Associated Press
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“Transports you whole
into the otherworldly realms Hosseini builds in Kabul, Paris, San Francisco,
and the Greek islands.”
— Harper’s
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“[Hosseini’s]
beautifully written, masterfully crafted new book…And the Mountains Echoed is painfully sad but also radiant
with love.”
— Los Angeles Times
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“Hosseini delves into
the joys, sorrows, and betrayals that alternately bind and fracture families.”
— Boston Globe
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“There is an assured,
charismatic new maturity to Hosseini’s voice. When he hits his stride, the
results are electrifying.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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“Beautiful, often harrowing.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“A complex mosaic, a portrait of the Afghan
diaspora as it is folded into the West and of those left behind…The book is
elevated by a strong sense of parable and some finely drawn characters and is
inventively constructed as it leaps from voice to voice.”
— Esquire
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“Wrought with
mastery, And the Mountains Echoed is
not just a well spun tale, but an accomplishment of the most elusive of
literary challenges—the humanization of a war-ravaged population in the eyes of
the very people complicit in their ruin.”
— Daily Beast
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“A surprisingly nuanced, morally complex, exquisitely told
tearjerker.”
— Christian Science Monitor
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“Captivating and
affecting…Hosseini traces the
traumas and scarring of tyranny, war, crime, lies, and illness in the
intricately interconnected, heartbreaking, and transcendent lives of his
vibrantly realized characters.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“Hosseini weaves a
gorgeous tapestry of disparate characters joined by threads of blood and fate…Uplifting and deeply satisfying.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
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“The beautiful
writing, full of universal truths of loss and identity, makes each section a
jewel…A haunting
read.”
— Publishers Weekly