A thousand splendid suns

Hardcover, 630 pages

English language

Published Dec. 17, 2007 by Riverhead Books, Center Point.

ISBN:
978-0-7394-8236-0
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OCLC Number:
156976176

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4 stars (5 reviews)

In his brilliant debut, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini mesmerized us with his evocative portraits and beautiful bittersweet story. Now he returns to tumultuous Afghanistan to tell the tale of an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love...

The child of an illicit affair, Mariam was raised by her single mother on the outskirts of town. At 14, she was sent to Kabul and sold in marriage to Rasheed, a widower decades older than she. But now after twenty years and no offspring, Rasheed takes a beautiful teenager, Laila, as his second wife. While Mariam despises Laila and the baby born months after her arrival, Rasheed's cruelty and the explosive changes in the country soon draw the women together. --front flap

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4 stars

Utterly depressing until the final chapters, however that doesn't mean it was a bad book, just that it made me feel that way. It's most striking because the story of misery and hopelessness is probably completely true. I didn't read this as fiction, which made it even sadder. Books like this are important in our current political climate. I especially loved that at the end of this Kindle version there were questions about the book as discussion starters because one of the themes of the book to me was that of education and thought before war.

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3 stars

It's been a while since I haven't bothered to finish a book. Not sure what it was about this one - maybe too similar to The Kite Runner in terms of mood, so I just wasn't captivated by the storytelling. Would generally recommend it to others, though - just not particularly thought-provoking (in the first 136 pages, at least).

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