From the author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns." The international bestseller is finally available again! Mariam is fifteen when she is sent from the province to Kabul and married to the thirty-years-older shoemaker Raschid. Years later, Leila, a girl from the neighborhood, faces a similar fate. When her family is killed in a bombing, she becomes Raschid's second wife. After initial distrust, Mariam and Laila become close friends. Together, they resist Raschid's brutality and plan their escape. A moving novel about the fate of two women in Afghanistan, written by the master storyteller Khaled Hosseini.