) to save the rest of his family. This acts as a metaphor for the central event: a poor father in 1952 Afghanistan selling his three-year-old daughter,
(Chorus) I am cursed, I am cursed Because I cannot have you I am cursed, I am cursed Because I cannot have you
Unlike Hosseini's previous hits like The Kite Runner , this novel is a sprawling multi-generational saga. It begins in a small Afghan village in 1952 with a heart-wrenching decision: a father, driven by poverty, sells his young daughter, , to a wealthy family in Kabul.
A planine odjeknuše (original title: And the Mountains Echoed