About the book: 2013 / 1952, starry night in the desert, a father tells an Afghan parable to his son and daughter. They settled down for the night in the mountains, on the way to Kabul. With bated breath, Abdullah and little Pari listen to the story of how one boy was kidnapped by a terrible deva and the poor guy faces the most terrible fate in the world. But life is not painted in black and white - even in fairy tales... The next morning, the father and children will continue their journey to Kabul, and this day will become the fork in their destinies. They will separate, and perhaps forever. The separation of brother and sister will give rise to several intertwining and unraveling stories at once. And in the center of this web is Pari, named so not at all in honor of the French capital, but because that is the name of fairies in Farsi. Five generations, many countries and cities will be involved in the parable of life, which unfolds through wars, births, deaths, loves, betrayals and hopes. 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 bill for it. This is a novel about the power of cheap words and expensive deeds, about the insidiousness of life's destiny, about the inevitability of retribution, about noisy cowardice and silent devotion. Reading Hosseini’s novel, I thought about how not to cry. And I started crying already on the twentieth page. And at the last ones she cried out loud, not embarrassed by anyone or anything. Like the first two novels, the new book is bathed in sadness and despair, but this veil is literally cut through by a thin but fierce ray of hope. This is not a book that will be quickly forgotten. Well, to the reader who manages to remain impassive, I take off my hat. Associated Press An amazingly dramatic saga about betrayal, sacrifice and victims, about the power of family ties. This book is broader in every way than The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. The novel spans three generations, many countries and many characters. This is a real canvas, the main theme of which is: are we ready to reject what is most dear for the sake of its good. People Like a sculptor working with malleable material, Hosseini gently shapes the individual parts of his large literary composition and then assembles them into one whole. This is a novel about family - in a global sense. The message of Hosseini's story is simple and complex at the same time: how we care for the people we care about is ultimately who we are. New York Daily News Like previous books, the new novel is a complex mosaic, a group portrait against the backdrop of Afghan mountains, Parisian cafes, American neighborhoods, and Greek islands. The book opens with a parable, but it is itself to a large extent a parable, wise and sophisticated. Esquire