New book from the author of the mega-selling The Kite Runner. This one focuses on a young woman sent to Kabul to marry a man 30 years her senior, and the friendship she forms 20 years later with another young woman in the increasingly troubled Afghanistan. Like its predecessor, this novel brings Afghanistan to life and engages the reader's humanity and interest in a way that news bulletins never can. "Hosseini is a truly gifted teller of tales" Sunday Times