New from the author of The Kite Runner

Khaled Khosseini's first novel The Kite Runner was a runaway success: 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies sold.

Now fans are abuzz with the news that his second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns will be released May 22. As before, Hosseini's setting is Afghanistan, and the publisher promises "a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love."

Update
Publishers Weekly has posted its review of Hosseini's novel for booksellers: "Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. ... Hosseini gives a forceful but nuanced portrait of a patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the bearing of male children being their sole path to social status. His tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of the plight of women in Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters."