Khaled Hosseini, June 4

Published: June 26, 2013, 3 p.m.

"And the Mountains Echoed" follows the characters' lives, choices and loves around the globe -- from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos. Hosseini is the internationally bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns." He is a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency, and founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.