After selling 38 million copies of his first two novels, writer Khaled Hosseini can be called nothing short of a phenomenon. The Afghani American first shot an arrow through readers' hearts with his international best-seller, The Kite Runner, a gut-wrenching story about a friendship between two Kabul boys that went deeply awry. Four years later his second work, A Thousand Splendid Suns, focused on the lives of two women and their loves—set against 30 turbulent years of various Afghan regimes. Now, after readers have held their breath for an additional six years, Hosseini presents And the Mountains Echoed, a work told in multiple points of view. Lives are intertwined and overlayed: siblings who are separated early in their lives, a caretaker and his employer embark on an unusual relationship, a bohemian alcoholic mother and her disconnected, adopted daughter serve and volley, cousins who live in the U.S. and face guilt when they return to their homeland. Hosseini's hallmark themes of fallibility, regret, and reconciliation are present as well as his uncanny ability to generate poetic emotion.  The writer talks to Goodreads about the guilt he feels at being an exile, how he never knows where he's going when he writes, being a stay-at-home dad, and how his son is a big Goodreads user.  

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