Selected Product: | A Thousand Splendid Suns Hardcover Edition: Book Club Editio Author: Khaled Hosseini Publisher: Riverhead Release Date: 2007-05-22 ISBN-10: 1594489505 ISBN-13: 9781594489501 List Price: $25.95 Average Customer Rating: | | The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition ISBN-10: 1594489602 ISBN-13: 9781594489600 List Price:$29.95 Ascent from Darkness ISBN-10: 0972948015 ISBN-13: 9780972948012 List Price:$24.95 The River Wife: A Novel ISBN-10: 081297719X ISBN-13: 9780812977196 List Price:$14.00 What You Have Left: A Novel ISBN-10: 1416541403 ISBN-13: 9781416541400 List Price:$14.00 High Tea in Mosul: The True Story of Two Englishwomen in War-torn Iraq ISBN-10: 1905736096 ISBN-13: 9781905736096 List Price:$21.95 |
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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, 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.
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. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" Review | Customer Rating: | | This unforgettable book intertwines the lives of two women of Afghanistan, Mariam and Laila. Their lives are surrounded by both the hope of Afghanistan and personal heartbreak brought on by the unstoppable force of history that crashes into their lives. The strength of these women is inspiring that in the worst of times, love will still conquer all wrong. | Couldn't stop listening to this audiobook. | Customer Rating: | | This is a great book. The violence was hard to take but I understood why the author felt that is was necessary. | Simply Astonishing | Customer Rating: | | What more can be said about "A Thousand Splendid Suns"? It is an astonishingly good novel and proves without doubt that Hosseini is no one-hit literary wonder. Whilst I didn't get into it from the get-go the way I did with "The Kite Runner", that is a minor quibble. The plotline and main characters are remarkable, memorable and heartbreaking. The novel gives a unique perspective on the living hell that is everday life in Kabul, Afghanistan, told through the eyes of two women at very different stages in their lives who are brought together in heartbreaking circumstances. They have to endure living their lives in a manner that I find horrific to contemplate, and Hosseini really brings to life their unlikely friendship and struggle to endure intolerable personal circumstances. I cannot recommend "A Thousand Splendid Suns" highly enough and have given it a 5-Star rating. | Khalled Hosseini | Customer Rating: | | I enjoy Hosseini's writing style. A good way to learn the history of Afganistan. | perfect | Customer Rating: | I can't say enough good things about this novel, it was perfect. I loved every page, every paragraph, every word. Thank you Khaled for another fantastic read, keep up the good work! |
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