A brother and sister are separated in childhood by a decision taken out of love and necessity, and the consequences travel much further than anyone intended.
Khaled Hosseini builds the novel from linked chapters that move between Afghanistan, Europe and the United States across several decades, handing the narration to a different character each time. Parents, siblings, servants, doctors and strangers each carry a portion of the story, and the pattern that emerges is about how one act of separation keeps surfacing in lives that seem unconnected to it.
How it is built:
• Interlinked chapters told through a rotating cast of narrators
• Decades and three continents held within a single story
• Family obligation, sacrifice and memory as recurring concerns
• From the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner
For readers of literary fiction, family sagas and Hosseini's earlier novels. Published by Bloomsbury and available at Boipoka.