My Review
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.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Release Date: 12/31/1969
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"It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time and an unlikely friendship."
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Fetching blurbs now... please stand byLove it! Great read.
Mathew says:
Its a fasinating book for those who are really into these kind of stories. For those who aren't, well, it could still be liked if one has an open mind.
Posted September 10, 2008
Sorry, not my cup of tea.
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The best line ever:
Rasheed ignores Marian and is walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat
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Khaled Hosseini on Wikipedia
Hosseini, is a Farsi speaking Afghan born in Kabul. 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.
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.
He is currently the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and lives in California with his family
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