DISPALCEMENT AND CULTURAL ALIENATION: In the post-colonial fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa, Monica Ali, Taslima Nasrin and Khaled Hosseini the main focus is on the theme of the dislocation and assimilation as the immigrants confront multiple problems of adjustment and survival. Hosseini has two objectives in his mind in his novels A Thousand Splendid Suns and his And the Mountains Echoed, he is seriously depicting the impacts of Afghan conflicts on the life and thoughts of people. In his The Kite Runner, this impact is clearly described but in And the Mountains Echoed the impact is felt by the people in their life. There are several secondary sources which describe the impact of the Taliban. Ashley Jackson wrote The Cost of War: Afghan Experiences …show more content…
The critics and reviewers eulogized Hosseini as a superb post-colonial novelist depicting the themes of cultural antagonism and dislocation. Windy Smith of Los Angeles Times described the novel as “a beautiful written, masterly crafted new book” (Smith 1) investigating the causes and consequences of the cultural collision that the people of Afghanistan suffered for 60 years. Fran Hawthorne of The National observed that Hosseini again narrates a heart rending tale of “war-ravaged Afghanistan and insight into the life of Afghan expatriates.”” (Hawthorne 2) Kim Hughs in Toranto Star opined that And the Mountains Echoed is structured on the metaphor of journey which begins in Shadbagh, continues in Kabul and France and is extended to California and it ends from where it started, What is interesting is the inter- connectedness of the characters who suffer; feel alienated; reel under poverty and cultural dislocation but all boldly struggle to survive in a harsh colonized society of Kabul. Philip Hensher of The Guardian made a historical statement about the novel that Hosseini deals with the psychological obsession of women trapped in the patriarchal superstructure. On the other hand, Kevin Nance of USA Today found the tale of Abdullah and Pari “devastating” as it describes the cruelty of parents in their struggle to get rid of