Cultural world
[Good book review] Thuy Tien rode a golden tree: A story about human loneliness
Khaled Hosseini was born in 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Like millions of readers who have seen familiar features through The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns, here too there will be loved ones separated by life’s difficulties and tragedies, there will be loss and betrayal.
Khaled’s novel initially looked like discrete short stories, the characters seemed simple and had no connection to each other.
From that single event, the story unfolds many complex turns, through generations, across oceans, taking us from Kabul to Paris, from San Francisco to the beautiful Greek island of Tinos.
“The story is like a moving train”, Khaled captures his characters and steers their lives in the most natural way, “wherever you are on the train, wherever you are on the train, you will soon
Interspersed with characters with extremely rich lives in And Then the Mountain Echoed, Khaled Hosseini did not forget to express his purest and deepest love for his homeland Afghanistan, through the rolling mountains and ancient trees.