The Mountains Sing Back
About This Novel
1952, Afghanistan, poor village Shadbagh. The 10-year-old boy Abdullah and his 3-year-old sister Pari experienced an irreversible separation that may last forever. Their mother died of hemorrhage when giving birth to Pari, and their father, Sabur, was an honest man who worked hard and could barely survive. Unable to support his two young children, he married a stepmother, Parvana, to the children. Parvana's brother Nabi works as a cook and driver in a wealthy family in Kabul. The hostess Nila has been unable to have children. Uncle Nabi brokered the deal, and Pari was sold to Nila and started a new life.
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A family's sixty years of joys and sorrows caused by poverty and war for generations, how they loved, how they were hurt, how they betrayed and sacrificed each other. After a series of changes, there were wars one after another. The Soviets came, the war broke out, the Soviets left, the warlords came, the warlords left, the Taliban came, the Taliban left, the Americans came, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, and the protagonist of the story was forced to disperse. The author is determined to brush away the dust that has covered the faces of ordinary Afghan people and show the throbbing souls behind them to the world. And I like this title of the book very much. Among the mountains, on the desert and the wasteland, some secrets are whispered softly in the wind and sand, and then are taken away, and finally retreat in the orange light of the sunset, until they gradually disappear in the vast black night sky, until they are never seen again.
I have read the author's other two works. This book shocked me differently than before. Mahdati's love for Nabi and Nabi's love for Nila cannot be accepted by the world, but they are both so touching. Love, regardless of national boundaries, race, status, touches the deepest weakness of the soul.
Many came by kite
The mountains sing back
The wheel of history never stops and the changes of the times continue. Everything we have is not in vain. There are always people who are silently paying for it. So what else do we have to complain about? What reasons do we have not to live well and keep working hard?
Because a special person came to read this book and wanted to get closer to his world🍊
I've read The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and then this one. Every book is beautiful, especially the line "For you, a thousand times over."
Throughout our lives, we are only looking for the person we lost in the first place
Khaled Hosseini's book is great! I didn't know this person at first until I accidentally saw the book "The Kite Runner". This book is very interesting. Then I read "A Thousand Splendid Suns", so I recently read like crazy. After a few days, I finally bought this book "The Mountains Sing Back". I was so happy that I woke up the whole family (at night) (about 12 o'clock) because of too much cheering, I, I, 555555555, but I am still very happy! Hahahahahahaha! !
Who do you love? Who do you hope to be?
Sabur Abdullah Pali Nabi Marcos Madalina Salia? These guys are all impressive. Sabur loved his two children, but he had no choice but to turn himself into the devil who sent away the children, and he did not get the medicine to clear the devil's memory, but I can't hate it. I just hope that I don't have to make this choice like him in my life. Abdullah loved Pari all his life. His name was both a sister and a daughter. He was a gentle brother and father. The trauma of losing his sister made him frightened and afraid of losing his daughter's company, which also tied up his daughter's freedom. The feathers he collected as a child did not evoke his sister's memory, and he did not feel the joy of reunion before he sank into the water. I prefer to remember the scene when he collected peacock feathers for his sister to drive away nightmares and inject sweet dreams into her daughter. Pali spent her whole life looking for the missing thing, but she forgot that Mamang, who might have been guilty of breaking up her and her brother, was like the devil in the original story and gave her a good growth environment. She was able to love her mathematics, grow up freely, and even be with Mamang. She had loved the same man, maybe she knew that Maman loved her, but the lack in her heart and the blood relationship made her and Maman go further and further apart. When she found the lack in her heart and saw the meticulous care of her brother by the namesake Pali, when she came to her senses, she found that she should have been nicer to Maman. I admire Nabi's meticulous care for Mr. Suleiman, whether it is out of repayment or repentance for breaking up the siblings. Even if Nabi does not love Suleiman, I can only think that they skipped love and directly established a family relationship. This is the ultimate destination of love. In Nabi's letter, Marcos is a complete gentleman, a surgeon with the spirit of saving lives and healing the wounded, but in his self-report, it is found that he is a floating person, like a feather. For his own pursuit, he gave the responsibility of taking care of his mother to Salia, but he was uneasy in his heart. Did he love Salia, whether it was out of love or brother-sister relationship? I think he did become a surgeon just for her, although he said it was not just for her. Madalina is a strong and confident mother. I admire the way she loves Marcos, never abandoning him, and the heart that does not want her son to take care of him when he loses the ability to take care of himself. She knows her son so well and loves him in this unique way. I also admire her dragging Salia into the school gate and announcing that no one can bully her anymore. I have no objections to a mother who can do this. Thalia, do you love Marcos again? Is it really because of Madalina that you collected all his photos? Even though her appearance was ruined, she did not become a gloomy person. She was sunny, had her own hobbies and pursuits, and lived her own life well. May I always have the kindness of little Pari and the sunshine of Salia.
I really like Hosseini. I have read his The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, but this one is missing. It's super good.
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Official(61)Scraped 21d ago
A family's sixty years of joys and sorrows caused by poverty and war for generations, how they loved, how they were hurt, how they betrayed and sacrificed each other. After a series of changes, there were wars one after another. The Soviets came, the war broke out, the Soviets left, the warlords came, the warlords left, the Taliban came, the Taliban left, the Americans came, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, and the protagonist of the story was forced to disperse. The author is determined to brush away the dust that has covered the faces of ordinary Afghan people and show the throbbing souls behind them to the world. And I like this title of the book very much. Among the mountains, on the desert and the wasteland, some secrets are whispered softly in the wind and sand, and then are taken away, and finally retreat in the orange light of the sunset, until they gradually disappear in the vast black night sky, until they are never seen again.
I have read the author's other two works. This book shocked me differently than before. Mahdati's love for Nabi and Nabi's love for Nila cannot be accepted by the world, but they are both so touching. Love, regardless of national boundaries, race, status, touches the deepest weakness of the soul.
Many came by kite
The mountains sing back
The wheel of history never stops and the changes of the times continue. Everything we have is not in vain. There are always people who are silently paying for it. So what else do we have to complain about? What reasons do we have not to live well and keep working hard?
Because a special person came to read this book and wanted to get closer to his world🍊
I've read The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and then this one. Every book is beautiful, especially the line "For you, a thousand times over."
Throughout our lives, we are only looking for the person we lost in the first place
Khaled Hosseini's book is great! I didn't know this person at first until I accidentally saw the book "The Kite Runner". This book is very interesting. Then I read "A Thousand Splendid Suns", so I recently read like crazy. After a few days, I finally bought this book "The Mountains Sing Back". I was so happy that I woke up the whole family (at night) (about 12 o'clock) because of too much cheering, I, I, 555555555, but I am still very happy! Hahahahahahaha! !
Who do you love? Who do you hope to be?
Sabur Abdullah Pali Nabi Marcos Madalina Salia? These guys are all impressive. Sabur loved his two children, but he had no choice but to turn himself into the devil who sent away the children, and he did not get the medicine to clear the devil's memory, but I can't hate it. I just hope that I don't have to make this choice like him in my life. Abdullah loved Pari all his life. His name was both a sister and a daughter. He was a gentle brother and father. The trauma of losing his sister made him frightened and afraid of losing his daughter's company, which also tied up his daughter's freedom. The feathers he collected as a child did not evoke his sister's memory, and he did not feel the joy of reunion before he sank into the water. I prefer to remember the scene when he collected peacock feathers for his sister to drive away nightmares and inject sweet dreams into her daughter. Pali spent her whole life looking for the missing thing, but she forgot that Mamang, who might have been guilty of breaking up her and her brother, was like the devil in the original story and gave her a good growth environment. She was able to love her mathematics, grow up freely, and even be with Mamang. She had loved the same man, maybe she knew that Maman loved her, but the lack in her heart and the blood relationship made her and Maman go further and further apart. When she found the lack in her heart and saw the meticulous care of her brother by the namesake Pali, when she came to her senses, she found that she should have been nicer to Maman. I admire Nabi's meticulous care for Mr. Suleiman, whether it is out of repayment or repentance for breaking up the siblings. Even if Nabi does not love Suleiman, I can only think that they skipped love and directly established a family relationship. This is the ultimate destination of love. In Nabi's letter, Marcos is a complete gentleman, a surgeon with the spirit of saving lives and healing the wounded, but in his self-report, it is found that he is a floating person, like a feather. For his own pursuit, he gave the responsibility of taking care of his mother to Salia, but he was uneasy in his heart. Did he love Salia, whether it was out of love or brother-sister relationship? I think he did become a surgeon just for her, although he said it was not just for her. Madalina is a strong and confident mother. I admire the way she loves Marcos, never abandoning him, and the heart that does not want her son to take care of him when he loses the ability to take care of himself. She knows her son so well and loves him in this unique way. I also admire her dragging Salia into the school gate and announcing that no one can bully her anymore. I have no objections to a mother who can do this. Thalia, do you love Marcos again? Is it really because of Madalina that you collected all his photos? Even though her appearance was ruined, she did not become a gloomy person. She was sunny, had her own hobbies and pursuits, and lived her own life well. May I always have the kindness of little Pari and the sunshine of Salia.
I really like Hosseini. I have read his The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, but this one is missing. It's super good.
