And the Mountains Echoed: A Novel Audiobook

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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

• “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)

• “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

• “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

• “[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

• “And the Mountains Echoed is powerful and haunting. And much like the country it describes, it is not easy to forget.”

  — Associated Press

• “Transports you whole into the otherworldly realms Hosseini builds in Kabul, Paris, San Francisco, and the Greek islands.”

  — Harper’s

• “[Hosseini’s] beautifully written, masterfully crafted new book…And the Mountains Echoed is painfully sad but also radiant with love.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Hosseini delves into the joys, sorrows, and betrayals that alternately bind and fracture families.”

  — Boston Globe

• “There is an assured, charismatic new maturity to Hosseini’s voice. When he hits his stride, the results are electrifying.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Beautiful, often harrowing.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “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

• “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

• “A surprisingly nuanced, morally complex, exquisitely told tearjerker.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “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)

• “Hosseini weaves a gorgeous tapestry of disparate characters joined by threads of blood and fate…Uplifting and deeply satisfying.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “The beautiful writing, full of universal truths of loss and identity, makes each section a jewel…A haunting read.”

  — Publishers Weekly