His And The Mountains Echoed Analysis

Pari became a mother of three children, Isabelle, Alain and Thierry. She accepted an offer to teach at a university in Paris. Pari enjoyed this job of teaching as she was the youngest professor at thirty six. Pari remained active in teaching job, “attended all university events, fund raisers, the occasional cocktail hour and dinner party”. In one of the parties she was embarrassed when a visiting professor named Charteland asked her a question about Afghanistan:
. “Will your people find peace, Madame Professor?”
“I wouldn’t know,” she says. “Practically speaking, I’m Afghan only in name.” (Mountains Echoed 174)
Hosseini depicts the fractured identity of Pari in the simplest possible words. Pari lost everything, her culture, religious norms, her rituals, dressing sense and Afghani grace and purity. She had become a French woman given to fashion, dances, drinking and parties. Her cultural dislocation is pathetic indeed. Pari had her husband, her children; she had everything except good health and peace
His And the Mountains Echoed begins in Afghanistan, moves to Europe and Greece, and ends in California, gradually widening its perspective. The novel raises many deep questions about the wavering line between native culture and alien culture. Hosseini vividly depicted the major dilemmas of Saboor and his daughter Pari; Parwana and her sister, Masooma; Idris and Timur. In interview Hosseini admitted that And the Mountains Echoed is a “multigenerational family story” dealing with the themes of life, love, grief, conflict, duty, and sacrifice” (Mountains Echoed 3). Hosseini observes that he is interested “in the manifest complexities of the relationship, its contradictions, its tensions, its inherent push-and-pull nature, and the early-life experiences that either rupture or intensify bonds between brothers and sisters.” (Mountains Echoed