A Thousand Splendid Suns
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek
New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek
New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
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This is one of my favorite books I’ve read. It is beautifully written and sucks you in like no other. It displays the cruel and difficult life in Afghanistan, especially for women. The respect I had for these women was beyond compare. The story is riveting and emotional. Please read this book!!!!!
At first read I hated men. Bring a man it was tough to read and hear how we both love and hate women. How we cherish them and degrade them at the same time. I then began to view this book through the eyes of the characters and gained a very different and vivid understanding and appreciation for cultural and religious differences. I can’t say I agree with them all but I do have a greater clarity of my own being in this world. Thank you.
I liked this book better than the Kite Runner, and I loved the Kite Runner. Such tremendous characterizations!
Written 9/28/08
Good book. Wouldn't say it was anywhere near the best I've read but a good story none the less. As with his previous book "The Kite Runner" this story was set in Afganistan and is the tale of two women and their struggle through life in their country and with their beliefs and customs -it was great that the two women bonded and became "family" they only had each other's trust and assurance that they would be okay- Laila and Miriam become a mother/daughter team in a struggle thru the taliban war era-Miriam is executed in the end, self sacrificing so that Laila and the children could continure life. Lailapays her respects by going back to Kabul and giving the orphanage who in her time of need took her daughter in so as to be fed and sheltered.
Good book. Wouldn't say it was anywhere near the best I've read but a good story none the less. As with his previous book "The Kite Runner" this story was set in Afganistan and is the tale of two women and their struggle through life in their country and with their beliefs and customs -it was great that the two women bonded and became "family" they only had each other's trust and assurance that they would be okay- Laila and Miriam become a mother/daughter team in a struggle thru the taliban war era-Miriam is executed in the end, self sacrificing so that Laila and the children could continure life. Lailapays her respects by going back to Kabul and giving the orphanage who in her time of need took her daughter in so as to be fed and sheltered.
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