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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini Rasheed forces Mariam to wear a burqa and treats her with ill-disguised contempt, subjecting her to scorn, ridicule, insults, even “walking past her...
by Lisa Jewell. This Afghan-American author follows his debut (The Kite Runner, 2003) with a fine risk-taking novel about two victimized but courageous Afghan women.
‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ by Khaled Hosseini narrates the tale of Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women whose lives entangle under persecution and conflict. While Mariam and Laila fight to survive and find purpose in a world that wants to restrict their opportunities and freedom, the book examines topics like love, sacrifice, and the ...
With “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” Hosseini has shown that he doesn’t intend to be a one-hit wonder. It will be interesting to see where he goes from here.
Book Reviews on... A Thousand Splendid Suns. by Khaled Hosseini. Recommendations from our site. “This is an easy read, it’s not heavy, but the subject matter and the themes are pretty tough…It’s such a powerful book.
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, 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.
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS tells the story of two Afghan women --- Mariam and Laila --- depicting their lives in the final quarter of the last century and the first few years of this one, as their country experiences two foreign invasions, civil strife, drought and famine.
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS tells the story of two Afghan women --- Mariam and Laila --- depicting their lives in the final quarter of the last century and the first few years of this one, as their country experiences two foreign invasions, civil strife, drought and famine.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a more ambitious novel than The Kite Runner, with a wider and deeper historical and cultural scope that illuminates the last three decades of Afghan history during which the country has been inflicted by coups and counter-coups, an anti-Soviet jihad, civil war, warlord and Taliban tyranny, and post 9/11 conflict.