and the mountains echoed by khaled hosseini

Because Parwana was shy and cautious, Masooma was able to “swoop in” and claim Saboor for herself. Parwana developed a crush on Saboor, then a young, handsome man.

While they were growing up, Parwana and Masooma were competitive with one another, and Parwana in particular resented Masooma for being prettier and more popular than she. Parwana-as the chapter begins, a single woman, not yet married to Saboor-takes care of her beautiful twin sister, Masooma, who has recently had a horrible accident, and can no longer walk. The third chapter is told from the perspective of Parwana, Saboor’s second wife, and Abdullah and Pari’s stepmother. Instead of throwing the feather away, he keeps it for himself, vowing to give it to Pari himself one day. One day, he finds a small yellow feather, of the kind that Pari was once fond of collecting. Nevertheless, Abdullah continues to love Pari more than anyone else. Wahdati separates Abdullah and Pari, and then tells Abdullah that “it’s for the best.” It becomes clear that the Wahdatis have adopted Pari as their own child-and it seems that Abdullah, now returned to Shadbagh along with his father, will never see his beloved sister again. When they arrive, Nabi leads them to the mansion where he lives and works. It takes Saboor, Pari, and Abdullah almost an entire day to travel to Kabul from their tiny village, Shadbagh. Saboor has told his children that he’s been summoned to do construction work on a mansion in the city, where his brother-in-law, Nabi, has been working as a servant. Abdullah and his sister, Pari, travel with Saboor to the city of Kabul.

The second chapter is set in the late 1940s and told from the perspective of Saboor’s young son, Abdullah. Although he’s forgotten about Qais almost entirely, he sometimes hears the sounds of his son-sounds that he has no way of understanding anymore. Now an old man, Ayub returns to his home. Before Ayub leaves, the div, sympathetic to Ayub’s guilt, gives him a bottle of liquid that makes him forget that he ever had a son named Qais. Reluctantly, Baba Ayub decides to let Qais stay. It gives Ayub two options: take Qais home, or allow him to stay. The div explains to Baba Ayub that it has provided Qais with a wonderful home and a good education. Eventually, he traces the div to a beautiful palace, in which he finds Qais playing happily with his friends.

Ayub, furious with himself for giving up his own child, decides to hunt down the div. In the fairy tale, a farmer named Baba Ayub is forced to sacrifice his favorite son, Qais, to an evil spirit called the div. In the first chapter, told from the perspective of the Afghan laborer Saboor, Saboor tells his two children, Abdullah and Pari, a fairy tale before they go to sleep. The novel is broken into nine chapters, each told from the perspective of a different character.

And the mountains echoed by khaled hosseini