This is where Amir and his wife Soraya live and raise their family. Amir leaves Afghanistan and moves to California with his father, Baba, who works at a gas station. 

This is where the main character, Amir lived and grew up. It is also where the traumatic life-changing event occurs and where Amir returns to adopt his best friend's son after the war. 

This was the location of another concentratrion camp that Chana and her grandmother Bubbe were sent to. On the train ride to the camp, a woman on the train says they are going there "to work, to starve, to die" (183).  Although this is a fictional novel, it accurately depicts the horrific reality of concentration camps during the Holocaust. When they finally arrive, "the air was thick and sticky, the sky was unnaturally pink. We could smell something cooking, burning" (184).  During the Holocaust, German Nazis established camps in Poland where Jewish people were to be exterminated.

Sought out by German officials, Isabelle is a target known as the Nightingale as she has been a successful spy for the Resistance. Isabelle is captured when she goes back to visit Vianne and is sent to concentration camps. Isabelle survives the multiple camps, but due to mistreatment is in poor condition at the end of the war.