So, then. You want a
story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his
sister Pari live with their father and stepmother 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.
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