Dans les années 70 à Kaboul, le petit Amir, fils d'un riche commerçant pachtoun, partage son enfance avec son serviteur Hassan, jeune chiite condamné par sa race à exécuter les tâches les plus viles. Liés par une indéfectible passion pour les cerfs-volants, les garçons grandissent heureux dans une cité ouverte et accueillante. Ni la différence de leur condition ni les railleries des camarades n'entament leur amitié. Jusqu'au jour où Amir commet la pire des lâchetés...
Été 2001. Réfugié depuis plusieurs années aux États-Unis, Amir reçoit un appel du Pakistan. « Il existe un moyen de te racheter », lui annonce la voix au bout du fil. Mais ce moyen passe par une plongée au coeur de l'Afghanistan des talibans... et de son propre passé.
À Kaboul, Mariam endure un mariage contraint avec un homme violent. L'arrivée de la jeune Laila sous son toit est une épreuve de plus. Mais, entre ces femmes que tout oppose, la rivalité va bientôt faire place à une indéfectible amitié... Et à l'espoir d'une autre vie. Par l'auteur des Cerfs-Volants de Kaboul, un chant d'amour poignant pour l'Afghanistan, déchirée par la barbarie.
Khaled Hosseini convoque des sentiments universels. [...] En hommage à ce peuple courageux qui prend appui sur ses drames pour se relever.
Jeanne de Ménibus, Le Figaro Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Valérie Bourgeois
Dans le village de Shadbagh, Abdullah, dix ans, veille sur sa petite soeur Pari, trois ans. Entre les deux enfants, le lien est indéfectible, un amour si fort qu'il leur permet de supporter la disparition de leur mère, les absences de leur père en quête désespérée d'un travail et ces jours où la faim les tenaille. Mais un événement va venir distendre ce lien, un choix terrible qui modifiera à jamais le destin des deux jeunes vies, et de bien d'autres encore...
Après les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul et de Mille Soleils splendides, Khaled Hosseini nous emmène dans un voyage bouleversant, d'un village afghan des années 1950 à la Californie des années 2000, et signe une fresque familiale renversante d'émotion, d'une ampleur et d'une audace inouïes.
Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Valérie Bourgeois
Sur une plage éclairée par la lune, un père syrien berce son fils endormi en attendant l'aube et l'arrivée d'un bateau. Il lui parle des longs étés de son enfance, de la ville de Homs telle qu'elle était avec ses ruelles bondées et son grand souk avant que le ciel se mette à cracher des bombes. Lorsque le soleil se lèvera, ils rassembleront leurs affaires, comme tous ceux autour d'eux, et embarqueront pour une traversée maritime périlleuse en quête d'un nouveau foyer.
Dans ce livre illustré par Dan Williams, Khaled Hosseini rend hommage aux milliers de réfugiés qui prennent la mer pour fuir la guerre et les persécutions.
NEW YORK TIMES bestseller An illustrated book on the refugee crisis that will break your heart in under 48 pages, from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of The Kite Runner , A Thousand Splendid Suns , and And the Mountains Echoed . A meaningful read to gift this holiday season. 'Intensely moving. . .Powerfully evocative of the plight in which displaced populations find themselves.' Kirkus, STARRED Review 'Hosseini's story, aimed at readers of all ages, does not dwell on nightmarish fates; instead, its emotional power flows from the love of a father for his son.' Publishers Weekly, STARRED BOX Review A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone. Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution, and he will donate author proceeds from this book to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation to help fund lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the globe. Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read writers in the world, with more than fifty-five million copies of his novels sold worldwide in more than seventy countries. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
Mariam is only 15 when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Two decades later she forms a friendship with a local teenager, Laila, and when the Taliban take over, making life a desperate struggle for survival, their deep bond moves them to act with an unexpected and startling heroism. 'In case you're wondering whether }A Thousand Splendid Suns{ is as good as }The Kite Runner{, here's the answer. No. It's better' }Washington Post{.
THE SPECIAL 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ''Devastating'' Daily Telegraph ''Heartbreaking'' The Times ''Unforgettable'' Isabel Allende ''Haunting'' Independent Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.>
Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
Marwan, mon cher enfant, je contemple ton profil éclairé par la lune, tes cils que l'on dirait calligraphiés, tes paupières closes dans ton sommeil innocent. Et je te dis : « Donne-moi la main. Tout ira bien. »
On a moonlit beach a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his grandfather's house in Syria, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the bleating of his grandmother's goat, the clanking of her cooking pots. And he remembers, too, the bustling city of Homs with its crowded lanes, its mosque and grand souk, in the days before the sky spat bombs and they had to flee.
When the sun rises they and those around them will gather their possessions and embark on a perilous sea journey in search of a new home.
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...
Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live in the small village of Shadbagh. To Abdullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their skulls touching, their limbs tangled.
One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart; sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe--from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos--the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
