Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, a predicament that he likened to "an arranged marriage."
Pari and Abdullah are as close as siblings can be. Abdullah loves his sister so much, she is almost his daughter. So when the powers that be tear them apart, both of their lives are irrevocably changed. Years down the road we meet friends, doctors, c...
Mariam is only 15 when she is sent from the provinces to Kabul. She must marry to the shoemaker Rashid, who is much older than herself. Some years later the similar fate experienced Laila, a girl from the neighborhood. She became Rashid second wife a...
