Khaled Hosseini, the only world famous Afghan writer, talks about the mores of his country. This time, in his third novel, on the example of the fate of people from several very different families.
Khaled Hosseini is a California doctor and the world’s only famous Afghan writer whose novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns (Phantom Press, 2008) became instant international bestsellers. Hosseini tells terrible and beautiful stories about poverty and the harsh customs of his distant homeland. And for the third time he manages to move even the most thick-skinned reader. His new novel is a story about the lives of several families from the late 1940s to the 2000s. There will be a story about a father who is forced to give his daughter to a rich but childless family, because he could not feed her. And about the servant who took care of the paralyzed master for fifty years. And about an Afghan living in America who will come to Kabul, liberated from the Taliban, to regain his family property. But the trip will turn out to be an occasion for painful reflection on who he is and what this distant, beautiful homeland is for him. The hero Hosseini does not feel completely at home either in the West or in his native Afghanistan. It seems that Hosseini himself writes his stories with the same goal – to find his place in the space between east and west.
Phantom Press, 448 p.