Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the ...

The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women.... Khaled Hosseini, Tommaso Valsecchi, Fabio Celoni, and Mirka Andolfo.