"So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952.
Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in
the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in
search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal
winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy
for which she was named, is everything. More like a parent than a
brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair
of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they
sleep together in their cot, their skulls touching, their limbs tangled.
One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their
father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them
there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart;
sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.
Crossing generations and continents, moving from
Kabul, to Paris, to San Francisco, to the Greek island of Tinos, with
profound wisdom, depth, insight and compassion, Khaled Hosseini writes
about the bonds that define us and shape our lives, the ways that we
help our loved ones in need, how the choices we make resonate through
history, and how we are often surprised by the people closest to us." (Bloomsbury Publishing)