A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Two women who had every reason to be enemies become each other's only reason to survive.
Women of Kabul
Khaled Hosseini's 2007 novel follows Mariam, an illegitimate daughter in 1960s Herat, and Laila, a girl from a modern Kabul family, as their lives collide when they are both forced into marriage with the same abusive man during the Soviet occupation, the civil war, and the Taliban's reign. Their relationship transforms from resentment to a bond of absolute loyalty. The novel covers thirty years of Afghan history through the lives of women history forgot to mention.
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"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.
"Khaled Hosseini · A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseini was inspired by news coverage of Taliban restrictions on Afghan women. He has said the novel came from his own guilt at leaving Afghanistan as a child and never having to live under those conditions.
A Thousand Splendid Suns debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over four million copies in its first year. It has been translated into more than forty languages.