Tag: And the Mountains Echoed

As opposed to the world-view of Afghan women, the book And the Mountains Echoed, has a character Nila Wahdati who is a representation of Khaled Hosseini's memory of the Afghan women he saw when he was a teenager. "There would be really striking women in short skirts," he recalls. "Beautiful, very outspoken, temperamental, endlessly – in my... Continue Reading →