1952 god, zvezdnaya noch' v pustyne, otec rasskazyvaet afganskuyu pritchu synu i docheri. Zataiv dyhanie, Abdulla i malen'kaya Pari slushayut istoriyu o tom, kak odnogo mal'chika pohitil uzhasnyj dev i bednyage predstoit samaya strashnaya uchast' na svete. No zhizn' ne raskrashena v cherno-belye tona dazhe v skazkah Nautro otec i deti otpravyatsya v Kabul, i etot den' stanet razvilkoj ih sudeb. Oni rasstanutsya, i, vozmozhno, navsegda. Razluka brata i sestry dast nachalo srazu neskol'kim spletayushchimsya i raspletayushchimsya istoriyam. I v centre etoj pautiny Pari, narechennaya tak vovse ne v chest' francuzskoj stolicy, a potomu chto tak zovut na farsi fej. Pyat' pokolenij, nemalo stran i gorodov budut vovlecheny v pritchu zhizni, kotoraya razvorachivaetsya cherez vojny, rozhdeniya, smerti, lyubovi, predatel'stva i nadezhdy. Novyj roman Haleda Hossejni, prozrachnyj, pronzitel'nyj, mnogogolosyj, o tom, chto lyuboe reshenie, prinyatoe za drugogo cheloveka, dobra radi ili zla imeet cenu, i sud'ba nepremenno vystavit za nego schet. Eto roman o sile deshevyh slov i dorogih postupkov, o kovarstve zhiznennogo prednaznacheniya, o neizbezhnosti vozdayaniya, o shumnom malodushii i bezmolvnoj predannosti. Copyright © 2013 by Khaled Hosseini and Roya Hosseini, as Trustees of The Khaled and Roya Hosseini Family Charitable Remainder Unitrust No. 2 dated February 29, 2012 All rights reserved. © Perevod, izdanie na russkom yazyke, oformlenie. ZAO "Izdatel'skij Dom Fantom Press", 2014 Zapis' proizvedena Audio Izdatel'stvom VIMBO ©& OOO "Vimbo", 2016 Prodyusery: Vadim Buh, Mihail Litvakov