„If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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Quotes from bookAnd the Mountains Echoed
And the Mountains Echoed is the third novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2013 by Riverhead Books, it deviates from Hosseini's style in his first two works through his choice to avoid focusing on any one character. Rather, the book is written similarly to a collection of short stories, with each of the nine chapters being told from the perspective of a different character. The book's foundation is built on the relationship between ten-year-old Abdullah and his three-year-old sister Pari and their father's decision to sell her to a childless couple in Kabul, an event that ties the various narratives together.
„Kabul is… a thousand tragedies per square mile.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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„You say their stories, it is gift they give you.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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„The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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„Gone.
Vanished.
Nothing left.
Nothing said.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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„The finger cut, to save the hand.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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„In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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„If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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„All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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„All good things in life are fragile and easily lost“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
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