It's a devastatingly simple story, but it captures the essence of the complex moral equations that Hosseini spends the rest of the novel teasing out. As a gesture of kindness, the giant gives the farmer a potion that makes him forget he ever had this son. The farmer, unable to summon the will to take the child from this place of plenty back to his own arid, desperate land, leaves without him. Eventually, the farmer, half mad with grief, tracks down the giant and finds his son in a lush garden full of happy children, with no memory of his birth family. He and his wife decide to choose randomly, and the unlucky one happens to be their favorite son. Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed begins with a fable that a father tells his two children: A farmer who works hard to eke out a living for his family is forced to give up one of his five children to an evil giant. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title And The Mountains Echoed Author Khaled Hosseini
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