A Thousand Splendid Suns
Nov 2008 · Penguin
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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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4.7
584 reviews
Marité Ramírez Ahumada
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14 January 2024
Omg, I love this book. I read it years ago, but stopped here to give my opinion because it must be read by more people. I loved its sobriety amongst devastating scenarios, as well as the fact that the main character turns out to be someone else than I thought at the start. At least for me. Also, it left me with a feeling of hope although I had completely lost it throughout several chapters. Must read.
That's Cool Jack
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21 April 2024
I couldn't finish it so maybe the ending is a satisfying conclusion but I don't know. I couldn't finish it because reading this it felt like the author was making bad things happen to the main character just to make her life hard and tragic. maybe you're into that kind of thing but personally I prefer things to not be depressing.
A Google user
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4 August 2011
A Thousand Splendid Suns is the second book from Khaled Hosseini. His first book The Kite Runner was great and as many of the reviews of this book state A Thousand Splendid Suns was even better. This book followed some of the same patterns and style of the first book in all the best respects and I feel was a better story. While The Kite Runner story was a story of two boys lives this was the story of two girls. Of course the story is about so much more than just two with the connections that all of our lives make to others. Mr. Hosseini has a gift for pulling the reader into his story. I felt so connected to the story it was gripping. So many these days want to shift blame around for the evil things that happened in Afghanistan, but Mr. Hosseini pulls no punches placing the blame in the right place. The two books are connected at a very subtle level, but can be read independently. I highly recommend this book to everyone.
About the author
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. He is A U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
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