Do not look in this book a comprehensive study of Afghanistan ... deeper and subtly Khaled Hosseini gives us here a selection of these feelings that make us human beings, and it universally. This intergenerational and intercultural saga proves that the tests, whatever they are, make us who we are. Love to disenchantment, from doubt to certainty, abandonment, reconstruction, tenderness, cowardice ... man, woman, children, old age, respect, barriers, freedom ... all topics with great modesty and an undeniable tact. This is not a novel to read in one sitting, and without recul.A each situation, it is advisable to locate oneself and to ask what would have been his own reaction ... I, for one, was blown away by this exercise in style, I have, in turn, was moved, sad, happy, angry, sincerely affected by these slices of life, sometimes brutal, showing that the best way to cross borders, it is with his heart ...