A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 24, 2009 - Fiction - 432 pages

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

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User Review  - ssperson - LibraryThing

I didn't realize until I reached the end that I listened to the abridged version of this audiobook. Despite that, I thought it was a terrific story, and I'm sure that the main plot points were covered ...

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User Review  - wickenden - LibraryThing

This is one of those very, very fast reads. It's an interesting story, but not gorgeous literature. Most importantly, I liked this book for the light it shed on the mess of Afghanistan, the nightmare ...

About the author

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-four countries. In 2006 he was named a US goodwill envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Author: Khaled Hosseini
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009
• ISBN: 1408803739, 9781408803738
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General