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The opening myth is a substance that permeates a network of tales, its meaning developing and diversifying across 400 pages. A father presents his children with a fable as they embark on a journey through the mountains of the book's title, a myth to prepare them for the coming rupture in their lives, one that will echo down generations.īut the threat of bland formula is instantly dissolved in Hosseini's elemental narrative chemistry. "You want a story and I will tell you one," Hosseini begins, with a device that informs his readers exactly what is what and who is who. There will be nostalgia for old Afghanistan, ironised by its clashes with western freedoms and shattered by modern wars there will be leaps in time, speaking of the cruel tricks of history through wildly emotive tales of loss, betrayal and redemption. This effectively marketed product informs its consumers that, as there was in The Kite Runner, here there will also be siblings separated by hardship and tragedy. Its narrative wares are clearly advertised in the book-jacket blurb to reassure his tens of millions of worldwide readers that they will be getting the brand they want. T here is a bland, almost corporate flavour to the title of Khaled Hosseini's third book, suggesting a large but windy Afghan epic.
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