And the Mountains Echoed

In a Shadbagh village in 1952, a brother and sister who have never been apart are taken across the desert to Kabul, and the journey ends in a separation that reshapes everything after it. Khaled Hosseini's novel follows Abdullah and Pari, and the people whose lives touch theirs, across generations and continents as the consequences of one decision made in poverty travel outward. Chapters shift narrator and setting, from rural Afghanistan to Europe and beyond, gradually revealing how the same event looks from each side of it. This edition runs to 416 pages. What stands out: • A multi-generational novel built from linked perspectives rather than one continuous voice • Opens in 1952 Afghanistan and follows its characters into later decades abroad • Themes of family obligation, sacrifice and the cost of survival • A 416-page edition published by Bloomsbury UK Suited to readers of literary fiction and to those who came to Hosseini through his earlier novels, published by Bloomsbury UK and available through Boipoka.