1952, a starry night in the desert, a father tells an Afghan parable to his son and daughter. They have settled down for the night in the mountains, on the way to Kabul. Holding their breath, Abdullah and the very little Pari listen to the story of how a boy was kidnapped by a terrible dave, and the poor fellow is facing the most terrible fate in the world. The next morning, the father and children continue their journey to Kabul, and this day will become a fork in their destinies. They will part, perhaps forever. The separation of brother and sister will give rise to several intertwining and unraveling stories at once. And at the center of this web of life is Pari, named so not in honor of the French capital, but because that is the name for fairies in Farsi. Khaled Hosseini's new novel, transparent, piercing, polyphonic, about the fact that any decision made for another person - for good or evil - has a price, and fate will certainly present a bill for it. This is a novel about the power of cheap words and expensive deeds, about the treachery of life's purpose, about the inevitability of retribution, about noisy cowardice and silent devotion.
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Translation: Shashi Martynova
Year of release: 2016
Publisher: Phantom Press
Pages: 448
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 135x205 mm
ISBN: 978-5-86471-672-4