I read "Kite Runner" also by Hosseini a few years ago and really liked it, as I did his second book "".
"And the Mountains Echoed" is a very good book - the chapters were pretty long, each a self-contained part of the larger piece of family history. This worked very well in the book - it was very easy to get lost in the particular part of the family and their trials and tribulations in whatever part of the world they were living in.
I typically don't keep track of characters names very well, so biographical-type novels over generations are often problematic for me to follow. Hosseini's way of focusing on the particular characters in a particular timeframe worked very well for me. Hosseinin didn't spend a lot of time trying to place the character in the family tree - when you became wrapped up in the story, the placement in the tree became apparent.
All of the characters in the book were well developed and interesting in their own right, and all had compelling, though not epic, stories. The "non-epic" is not a slam in any way, they had issues. histories, good decisions and bad - not every decision people make causes a war or avoids a nuclear detenation. The stories felt real, interesting and compelling, exactly what you want in a book.
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