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16th Jun 2013Nasha commented on:
Silversurfers Book Club - Summer 2013I have just started Girl Gone .. enjoying the thriller so far ... will review it when I have finishedViewDate:
16th Jun 2013Nasha commented on:
Silversurfers Book Club - Summer 2013Hosseini's new novel is a unique take on narrating a range of differing stories that, very cleverly, interlink. The reader is introduced to a father telling his children a moral based tale of the Div in Chapter One. The Div is an ogre troll type mystical beast who kidnaps a child from a poverty stricken village, taking him to, what turns out to be the Div's paradise home. The father attempts to salvage his son but upon arrival at the Div's palace the father realises his son is living a better life here, and suddenly the father is left with an unthinkable decision; to save his son, and return him to a poverty stricken village where infant mortality is epidemic, or to leave his son and never see him again, accepting that he will live a better life in the Div's palace. At first, I was a little confused by this; however, I later learned that this initial tale is a moral that can be applied to all the characters throughout the novel, and beholds underlying meaning that echoes through the text. One may argue And The Mountains Echoed involves less suspense and sudden shock than both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns; nevertheless, I personally found this book to be just as, if not more gripping as the intelligent journey the reader is led through involves both turns you would not expect and sudden shockers! Moreover, the novel displays not only the dreadful terror of the ruling Taliban in the places such as Kabul, but also the hardship and poverty other characters face in Hosseini's fictional setting of the rural village, Shadbagh. I would give this a 5 star rating!!