A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)

from shweta81

That's the only book that ever made me cry. Yes, it did. This is a truly engrossing book, especially if you read it before reading "The Kite Runner". I read it in 3-4 readings, staying up late till 4 in the morning. It was so hard to put it down. Book is a story about 2 women, Mariam and her husb...

from lkernagh

What an amazing novel and so difficult to pin down my thoughts in a short review. Words such as "liked" "enjoyed" are not fitting words to describe this reading experience. "Spellbinding" and "eye-opening" would seem more appropriate. Set against the backdrop of 30 years of turbulent Afghanistan ...

from jennastine

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by writer of The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of two very different women who end up in the same situation. Laila and Mariam are from different generations and very different backgrounds, but when they end up married to the same man in Taliban era Afghani...

from marient

A story of the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope, faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly togethe...

from

A character study of two women over the course of 40 years of Afghanistan history and the unlikely friendship that grows between them. Very moving and powerful book.