Hosseini in peak form

And the Mountains Echoed

Now he returns with one of the year’s most anticipated releases, a multi- generational saga of familial love, honour, sacrifice and betrayal, that not only meets all expectations but surpasses them.

Opening in 1952 in Shadbagh, a small village outside of Kabul, a father, Kaboor, recounts an ancient story of a giant and the family it destroys, before setting out for the city with his three year-old daughter, Pari, and her adoring older brother, Abdullah.