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A Planine Odjeknuše (2013)

by Khaled Hosseini(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Laguna

review 1: This is an intricate and touching story of the closeness of a brother and sister who were separated from each other as children in Afghanistan. They came from a very poor family, and the father sold the sister to someone whom he thought could take good care of her. The story closely details their lives apart from each other, their identities, their loves and hates, their extended families, and their travels in worlds apart. I feel I should rate this book with four stars, but I had difficulty with the numerous characters and had to go back through the book several times to understand who some of the people were. But, it's a great story and it comes together in the end. You may want to read it twice... to rethink some of the complexities.
review 2: It saddens ... moreme that I cannot rate this book higher than I did. I appreciate Hosseini's story telling talent and his two previous books I have enjoyed very much. This one, however, disappointed me. The more, that I had such great expectations!'Ten year old Abdullah would do anything for his younger sister. In a life of poverty and struggle, with no mother to care for them, Pari is the only person who brings Abdullah happiness. For her, he will trade his only pair of shoes to give her a feather for her treasured collection' - this is such a great promise of a wonderful story and the book does indeed start well in that direction. The bond between Abdullah and Pari is so touching and movig... you feel only the more sorry that the authors abandons them after Chapter 2 only to come back really on the last, what, five pages of the book? Mr Hosseini closes the book just as well as he started it, he does not offer Hollywood happy-ever-after and I can still appreciate it. However, everything in between is somewhat under- or over-explored and also in the wrong proportion. So what is the greatest weakness of the book? I think Mr Hosseini wasn't really sure what that book would be about, really. Leaving Abdullah and Pari behind, he had introduced so many characters, somewhat, somehow interlinked, but so disperse and diverse that in the end, he does not give justice to any of them, really. Imagine the disappointment of waiting until the last chapter to find out what happened to Abdullah?! That just won't do! On the other hand, we got to know so many other people, each of them carrying their own story, their own tragedy, surely, all moving and interesting on their own, but all weighed down by the sheer company of the other ones. Somehow 'collectivised' to present one picture. But of what? Of Afghanistan? Of humankind? What did he really want to say bringing in the story of Roshi, Idris and Timur? What did he intend to say bringing in the story of Markos and Thalia? Or even Parwana and Masooma? Adel and his father? And why did we never got a chance to get to know Saboor - the father of the children - better?! By making all his characters the protagonists, he failed to make any of them, and their stories, stand out. less

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