After more than 189 weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list for "The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made "The Kite Runner" a beloved classic, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love

卡勒德·鬍賽尼（Khaled Hosseini），1965年生於喀布爾，後隨父親逃往美國。鬍塞尼畢業於加州大學聖地亞哥醫學係，現居加州執業，並因其巨大的國際影響力，受邀擔任聯閤國親善大使。他的第一本小說《追風箏的人》問世後大獲成功，因書中角色刻畫生動，故事情節震撼感人，蟬聯亞馬遜排行榜131周之久，全球熱銷600萬冊，創下齣版奇跡。