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050	0	0	_aPS3608.O832 _bA53 2013
082	1		_aFIC HOS _2
100	1		_aHosseini, Khaled _d(, 1965-)
245	1	0	_aAnd the mountains echoed _c/ Khaled Hosseini
300			_a404 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aThis bittersweet family saga spans six decades and transports readers from Afghanistan to France, Greece, and the United States. Hosseini (The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns) weaves a gorgeous tapestry of disparate characters joined by threads of blood and fate. Siblings Pari and Abdullah are cruelly separated at childhood. A disfigured young woman, Thalia is abandoned by her mother and learns to love herself under the tutelage of a surrogate. Markos, a doctor who travels the world healing strangers, avoids his sick mother back home. A feminist poet, Nila Wahdatire, reinvents herself through an artful magazine interview, and Nabi, who is burdened by a past deed, leaves a letter of explanation. Each character tells his or her version of the same story of selfishness and selflessness, acceptance and forgiveness, but most important, of love in all its complex iterations.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aFamilies _v--Fiction
650		4	_aInterpersonal relations-- _vFiction
650		4	_aCommunity life _v--Fiction
651		4	_aAfghanistan _x-Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
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