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| Original Title: | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| ISBN: | 1594489505 (ISBN13: 9781594489501) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://khaledhosseini.com/books/a-thousand-splendid-suns/ |
| Characters: | Laila, Mariam, Rasheed, Tariq |
| Setting: | Afghanistan Kabul(Afghanistan) Herat(Afghanistan) |
| Literary Awards: | British Book Award for Best Read of the Year (2008), Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2008), California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (2007), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2007), Lincoln Award Nominee (2011) |
Khaled Hosseini
Hardcover | Pages: 372 pages Rating: 4.37 | 1078148 Users | 51330 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Author | : | Khaled Hosseini |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | U.S. Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 372 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2007 by Riverhead Books (first published May 22nd 2007) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Contemporary Romance. Contemporary. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Humor. Adult |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan'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 Afghan 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.
--front flap
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Like diamonds and roses hidden under bomb rubble, this is a story of intense beauty and strength buried under the surface of the cruel and capricious life imposed upon two Afghani women. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. HowFor the last two months I have been putting off reading this book. For starters, I bought the book at an airport in Taiwan, which meant it didn't have a due date which meant it took a backseat to many books that I didn't have the luxury of reading whenever.Additionally, because I've heard so much about this book already, I almost didn't want to read it at all. I've heard that it's depressing, that it's not as good as The Kite Runner, and that it's basically a novel about the brutal treatment of
Suns is part historical fiction, part social commentary and part kick-in-the-throat storytelling. A friend of mine said that Suns is a metaphor for Afghanistan but I found it illustrative of Afghanistan's weary and violent history; I found it brutally educational. When I had studied in Germany in 1987, I lived in an international dormitory. I asked my neighbor, Hyder, where he was from, he leaned in to me with a devilish grin and hissed Afghanistan! While others found this amusing, the effect
I started this book with high expectations. I had been overwhelmed with every conceivable emotion when I read the Kite Runner and just couldnt believe that his second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, could possibly be as good.So it was with trepidation and yet excitement that I read this book. I had left the last dozen or so pages to read until the following morning, as I didnt want to quite let it go, and as I sat there at 7 a.m. on the terrace, with a cup of coffee in my hand, I slowly finished
I didn't know whether to keep on reading or DNF this book. I didn't know if I should give it 5 stars or 2. The thing is, I cannot abide extreme hardship, pain, and suffering on behalf of the characters that are in the books I read.I'm certain that this is to be the last book I'd read this year. And what a book did it prove to be! The mind reels at the barbarism that can be eked from such perverted ways of thinking. Reason, rationality are out of the window.I know I haven't mentioned the plot or
I like that you pointed at the fact that hosseini doesn't let his novel inter in a melancholic atmosphere but rather each time things get worst he
tamar wrote: "this was my best read in 2007 and one of the best (if not one of the most difficult) that I've ever read....a shiver still goes up my
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