Returning to the Sound with Love——"The Mountains Sing Back"

Like "The Kite Runner", Khaled Hosseini's "The Mountains Echo" is also a gripping book that surpasses any other book I have read in a short time. The novel eclipsed it.

The mountains echo, this evocative word has a metaphor for the journey of life. Life is like a winding mountain road, with every scene and scene and everything happening, and every gain and every loss is similar. When we shouted in the mountains and felt lost in the fading voice, after a while we heard the echo from the valley again. Life is a process of regaining something lost and finding it again with love.

This is the case with "The Mountains Echo".

In Shadbagh, a poor village in Afghanistan, 3-year-old Pari was sold to a rich man in Kabul due to her uncle's help, and was forced to be separated from her brother Abdullah. After sixty years of changes in the world, Pari was finally reunited with her long-awaited brother. The story takes the joys and sorrows of three generations of Pali's family as the main line, and the fragmented character stories as secondary lines, unfolding a huge puzzle that spans time and space. In war, life and death, promises and lies, the fate of each character is ultimately intertwined.

In my mind, Khaled Hosseini, who has immigrated to the United States for many years, is undoubtedly an Afghan who can tell stories. His works are deeply rooted in his homeland, where children, men and women are all part of the landscape. From the tranquility of the mid-20th century, to the invasion of the Soviet Union, to the persecution of the Taliban... Reading "The Mountains Echo", a genre painting engraved with the sixty years of changes in Afghanistan, you will feel that it is not written It comes out, but grows out of life. But regardless of wealth or poverty, happiness or pain, the author's soft and delicate brushwork is permeated with the most real and simple beauty. Just as the Persian poet Rumi's poem quoted in the book: "Today, I saw the face I was looking for. I saw the closed moon, shy flowers, and immeasurable elegance."

Mr. Liang Heng has He said: "A good work takes a whole lifetime to read." Although I think "The Mountains Echo" is not so exaggerated, it is indeed a philosophical record full of ambiguity. Hosseini's profound meaning is not a cold and pungent lash, but a heart-warming medicine. In stumbling forward, you can always find the lost part of yourself in them. In my opinion, Pari's story is a reflection of life's transition from resistance to compromise. Rumi said: "Out of the concept of right and wrong, there is a field, and I will meet you there." There is no right or wrong in life, and you cannot give it a red card. In the face of naked reality, the reason why you resist is not because you have not compromised with the world, but because you have not reconciled with yourself. Reconciliation is to leave a place in your heart. If you can tolerate life, life will tolerate you. While life provokes you to resist, it also subdues you with acceptance. Through "The Mountains Echo", Hosseini reached a reconciliation with reality and completed a true self-analysis. As a result, this work lacked the touching human care of the previous work, but gained a bit more of the hesitation of immigrants. Uneasiness, relief after a bit of struggle.

We may have all been alone and lost in the mountains, but as long as we shout loudly, the mountains will respond. They will fill up our uneasiness and fear, and then tell us: You have lost external objects, but you have found yourself. Reconciliation with yourself is the truest "returning to love with love" in life.