And the Mountains Echoed

I enjoyed And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini another of his novels set in Afghanistan.  It is a different style to his earlier stories.  It begins in the early 1950s when a father, experiencing poverty decides to give away his very young daughter, Pari, for money to a wealthy woman who cannot have children.  This leaves Pari's brother Abdullah heartbroken and casts a heavy pall on the family.  Each part of the story is told by several characters, usually in the first person and the reader learns about those individual lives and how they intersect.  The story continues almost to the present day as we learn the fate of all the characters.  The history of the country itself is also a character as we learn about the tragedy that plagues Afghanistan and the remarkable resilience of those who remain.  Hosseini is a great storyteller. 41/2/5