From the Publisher: After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel enormous of contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty-from the Soviet invasion to the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the murder, fear and hope of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives-the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness-are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling that instinct made The Kite Runner beloved a classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a chronicle of decades three of Afghan history and a moving deeply account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an instructctible love-a achievement stunning.