And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed (2013) concerns a brother and sister separated when the latter is given up for adoption because of their family’s straitened circumstances. The novel chronicles the decades following the siblings’ divergence in 1950s Afghanistan.

…Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) and And the Mountains Echoed (2013)—his second and third novels, respectively—are also closely tied to Afghanistan.