My Review
Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is a story of two women and their lifes in Afghanistan over the past 40 years. Mariam was born an illegal child and was forced to marry Rasheed, an abusive husband at age 15. Rasheed is an ugly, cruel man inside and out. Her husband broke her spirit with his abuse and was forced to wear a burqa against her wishis. Laila is an attractive girl who lives just up the street. She was born to educated, liberal parents and enjoyed the freedoms Mariam was restricted from.
During the wars of the 1980's and 1990's, a rocket destroyed Laila's home with her parents in it. This tragedy an unexpected pregnancy forces Laila to become Rasheed's second wife. After an initial rivalry, Mariam and Laila become best friends.
A Thousand Splendid Suns does a wonderful job of giving glimpses and insight into the daily life in Afghanistan through the eyes of two very different women who become the closest allies.
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It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini's compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope.
“A Thousand Splendid Suns takes you to war torn Kabul and personalize Afghanistan in a beautiful way.”
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afganistan's last thirty years - from the soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around them.
Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afgan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love - a stunning accomplishment.
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Fetching blurbs now... please stand byLove it! Great read.
Estephanie says:
it was a great book that makesmade me cry..
Posted January 11, 2012
divya says:
really a lively novel with so many touching incidences.
Posted January 09, 2012
aziz says:
a touching truth. oppressed women
Posted January 06, 2012
bolsen19 says:
I loved this book. It really gives you a new understanding of Afganistan and whats happening in the world today.
Posted August 20, 2011
Sorry, not my cup of tea.
Young Outlaw says:
crazy tupac song... holla if u hear me remix... recommended to all the true street soldiers hustling to survive
Posted May 05, 2011
Young Outlaw says:
ya feel me? holla if u hear me
Posted May 05, 2011
Young Outlaw says:
A true page -turner....espically if u wanna read a novel of depressed events
Posted May 05, 2011
Hassaan says:
I hate it is really depressing
Posted October 24, 2010
Amy says:
it is utterly depressing. Nothing good happens to this woman...
Posted October 20, 2009
Khaled Hosseini's Bio
Hosseini, a Farsi-speaking Afghan, was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father was involved with the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry and his mother was a teacher at a girls high school in Kabul. In 1970, Hosseini and his family moved to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan. In 1973, Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year. Several months later, the former King of Afghanistan, Zahir Shah, was ousted from power in a bloodless coup that was orchestrated by Zahir's cousin, Daoud Khan.In 1976, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris and moved the family there. They chose not to return to Afghanistan because communists had seized power through a bloody coup. Instead, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California. Having left Afghanistan with only the clothes on their back, they were forced to subsist on welfare and food stamps for a brief period.
Hosseini graduated from Independence High School in San Jose in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1993. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He practiced medicine until a year and half after the release of The Kite Runner. As of 2007 he lives in San Jose. source
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"It wasn't so much the whistling itself, Laila thought later, but the seconds between the start of it and the impact. The brief and interminable time of feeling suspended. The not knowing. The waiting. Like a defendant about to hear the verdict."
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Nausheina Haniff
Mar 14, 2011 @ 2:42 pm | delete
- The author of the book gave the readers a very negative thought about Muslim men and women.He made it seem as though Muslim men all over the world abuse & just use women and that women are stupid and that they can not think for themselves.This is not true,People have the wrong end about Islam...... :(
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mlim
Oct 12, 2010 @ 10:31 am | delete
- I'm using this book and this review for a paper. Who's review is this, "A Thousand Splendid Suns takes you to war torn Kabul and personalize Afghanistan in a beautiful way??
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mastoora
Oct 10, 2010 @ 12:51 pm | delete
- is there any movie for A Thousand Splendid Suns? please email me to let me knoe thnx!
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Mastoora
Oct 10, 2010 @ 12:35 pm | delete
- this is the most amazing book i have ever read i love it. Khaled Hosseini is one my my very favourite authors. awesome book dude. I am from afghanista as well, and i have lived there in kabul during the war, so i knew exactly how it felt living in a war torn country. i could really relate to almost everything that is written in that book. as a women especially i know how mariam and laila felt at times because i have also been through very similar situations in life in afghanistan then moving back and forth to Kabul then to pakistan.
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Jodi_k Sep 12, 2010 @ 10:46 am | delete
- An excellent book, but The Kite Runner was better. I think he captured the feelings of boys better than women.
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