1952 year, star night in the desert, a father tells the Afghanistan parable to the son and daughter. They settled down on lodging for the night in mountains, on a way to Kabul. With the bated breath, Абдулла and little Пари listen history about that, how one boy was stolen by terrible дэв and poor fellow the most frightful fate coming in the world. But life is not painted in черно-белые tones - even in fairy-tales. The next morning a father and children will continue a way to Kabul, and this day will become the fork of their fates. They will part, and, maybe, forever. The separation of brother and sister will give beginning at once to a few interlaced and untwisting histories. And in the center of this spider web is Пари named so quite not in honour the French capital, and because so call on фарси of fairies. Five generations, quite a bit countries and cities, will be engaged in the parable of life, that is opened out through wars, births, deaths, любови, treacheries and hopes. New novel of Халеда Хоссейни, transparent, piercing, many-voiced, that any decision taken for other man, - good for the sake of or evils - has a price, and a fate certainly will propose an account for him. It is a novel about force of cheap words and expensive acts, about treachery of vital destiny, about inevitability of requital, about a noisy faint-heartedness and silent devotion.A book contains an unprintable bad language.