And the Mountains Echoed
Characters in And the Mountains Echoed
16 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Pari
Abdullah's little sister, whose separation from him sets the story in motion.
Abdullah (And the Mountains Echoed)
A devoted older brother whose bond with his sister anchors the novel across decades.
Supporting characters
Saboor
The poor village father of Abdullah and Pari, whose bedtime fable and journey to Kabul begin the story.
Nabi
Parwana's brother, who works for a wealthy household in Kabul and links the village to the city.
Julien
A Frenchman and professor who later works for an international financial institution; his life becomes bound up with Pari's in Paris.
Suleiman Wahdati
Nila's husband, a wealthy Kabul man who takes in a young girl from the village as the couple's adopted daughter.
Nila Wahdati
A glamorous, restless woman living in a wealthy Kabul household.
Parwana
Stepmother of Abdullah and Pari, whose own past shapes the family's fate.
Masooma
Parwana's twin sister, whose relationship with her shapes Parwana's life in the village.
Markos Varvaris
A Greek plastic surgeon who travels to war-scarred Kabul, carrying a past tied to his childhood.
Idris Bashiri
An Afghan-American doctor who returns to Afghanistan from California.
Timur Bashiri
Idris's cousin, who returns to Kabul with him from the United States.
Amra (And the Mountains Echoed)
A Bosnian nurse whose story is one of the novel's shifting perspectives.
Roshi (And the Mountains Echoed)
A young Afghan girl whose story forms one of the novel's later chapters.
Thalia
Markos's childhood best friend, whose injuries as a girl shape his path to becoming a plastic surgeon.
Eric Lacombe
Pari Wahdati's husband in her adult life in France.