War and suffering can make people numb and cruel, and they can also make people kind and delicate. Just like impressionist master pissarro, his short childhood in Afghanistan brought Husseini a heart full of affection. He is very lucky. His three works, The Kite Runner, Brilliant Thousand Sunnies and Echo of the Mountain, all bloom in misery, but they are ordinary but thrilling. Housainy is a master of romantic fairy tales and a realist. His childhood experience and sympathy enabled him to fully deconstruct the situation of the Afghan people persecuted by the war. His heart torn by suffering and full of love, from the perspective of a child, accompanied them step by step to grow and destroy in repression. Delicate and melodious words, like a river full of sadness, slowly enter the reader's heart.
Husseini is also a painter and filmmaker. He is superb in scene change and picture depiction. As we all know, a good scene contrast is very important for a story. Housainy achieved his own unique style, and he described his magnificent life in words. Masooma asked his sister Parvana to abandon her paralyzed self and die in the wilderness. Watching the sunset get colder and colder, the aesthetic feeling of contrast expanded to the extreme.
The Echo of the Mountain was written on 20 13. Ten years have passed since Housainy's first novel The Kite Runner was published. In the past ten years, Housainy's narrative skills have been greatly improved. Different from the first two works, Echo of the Mountain has a unique narrative style. Every protagonist in the story has his own story. When we do something to the character,
The story revolves around Abdullah and his baby sister. They were born in the sad era of poverty and war. They had to learn to love, to betray, to be hurt and then to sacrifice for each other in 60 years of joys and sorrows. The story didn't end there. The affection between brother and sister, the love and companionship of the lover who is not full above the friendship between master and servant, the great love of human nature in the war, Housainy's description of love is simple and direct, with no emotional confession, and some natural emotional waves, such as ups and downs of mountains, thick and dense.
Suffering suddenly fell like a meteorite.
Housainy is good at the narrative style of growing up, which gradually extends from a child to family and society. He has his own story template, from initial happiness to disillusionment of happiness, from painful separation to relief and forgiveness of reunion. Housainy constantly zoomed in on a point, and then from the two dimensions of time and space, from the brother and sister of a poor family to the wider world, with ingenious ideas and unique techniques.
The climax of the plot in a story is often an unexpected event. They came suddenly, like a meteorite hitting a quiet village, tearing the story apart from the short warmth. For little Abdullah, the loss of his beloved little sister, Paley, is this meteorite; For Parvana, at the moment when his sister Masooma was pushed off the branch, the meteorite had landed; For Nabi, Mr. Wahdati's sudden stroke was a meteorite that destroyed a family ... The arrival of these sufferings was dramatic, but it seemed natural. The warm fragments before suffering are precious, and the sadness that the beautiful status quo is destroyed is the most touching.
Mutual redemption, love and companionship
Navi's story is the most romantic in the whole novel. Mr. Wahdati left Nabi, he was a bad cook and a bad driver, out of unspeakable selfishness and unacceptable same-sex taboo love; Nabi sold his sister's stepdaughter, Pali, to the Wahdati couple in order to please his mistress, Nyala. Mr. Wahdati suffered a sudden stroke, Nyala left Afghanistan with Parry, and Nabi accompanied the paralyzed Mr. Wahdati until he died of old age.
Mr. Wahdati often asks Nabi to drive him to the lake. He quietly looked at the lake and Nabi, restrained his admiration, "the loneliest eyes in the world." After the stroke, Mr. Wahdati was irritable and melancholy, but Nabi Rong put up with him. After discovering Vahdati's feelings for himself, he wanted to leave, but he couldn't give up. This passage is like a gentle wind moaning in his ear. It is the best ending for two lonely souls to accompany each other and redeem each other for the rest of their lives.
"'memory' is a blessing, protecting everything you cherish; It is also a curse that allows you to constantly reproduce the most painful moments in your life, the hardships, struggles and sorrows you have experienced. "
The collision between romance and reality, through a new perspective, allows readers to learn to understand and forgive, just like the people in the book. This is what Housainy really wants to express, and it is also the place that the whole work brings me the greatest touch.