And The Mountains Echoed Masooma. But what do we really know about each other. When i finish reading i think i know what informed his choice.
The timeline below shows where the character masooma appears in and the mountains echoed. As the chapter begins parwana sees it smeared down masooma s buttocks and thighs. Khaled hosseini s book and the mountains echoed opens with this poem by jelaluddin rumi.
The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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. Two sisters masooma and parwana are sitting on a branch high up an oak tree their feet dangling. Parwana wants to howl but she forces herself to be cheerful. There can only be so many stories of so many people spanning differences in culture and class painting images of poverty war love compassion hatred and longing that you start to wonder if a wo.