Khaled Hosseini · 2013 · exile

Khaled Hosseini's 2013 novel. In a poor Afghan village, a boy named Abdullah is torn from his little sister Pari when she is sold to a wealthy Kabul family to save the household. The rupture ripples across continents and decades - Pari raised in Paris, Abdullah emigrating to California - as a sprawling family saga traces the long echo of that first, unbearable separation back toward reunion.

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   Shadbagh

   The impoverished Afghan village where Abdullah and his beloved little sister Pari grow up, until their father, unable to feed them all, sells Pari to a rich family in the capital.

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   Kabul

   The city where Pari is taken into the household of the poet Nila Wahdati, severing her from the brother who adores her and setting in motion a lifetime of separation.

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   Paris

   Where Nila carries the young Pari to be raised, a world away from Afghanistan - Pari growing up French, haunted by an absence she cannot name.

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   California

   Where Abdullah, decades later, has emigrated and built a life and a family, carrying the memory of his lost sister until the threads of the story at last draw them back together.