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Born in Afghanistan a generation apart, Mariam and Laila are brought together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the escalating dangers around them, they form a bond that will alter the course of their lives and the lives 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.
From the author of the Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love--a stunning accomplishment.
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desertion, Sufism, Pashhtuns, domestic abuse, Tajiks, Taliban, Pinocchio, Literature, Families, Family, Intergenerational relations, Women, Loss (Psychology), Family relationships, Family sagas, Friendship, Families -- Fiction., Fiction, Ehefrau, Social conditions, Arranged marriage, Ehemann, Unterdrückung, Family life, Afghanistan, fiction, Fiction, family life, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), General, Frauenfreundschaft, Altersunterschied, Large type books, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-12-14, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Familia, Novela, Afganistán, Fiction, family life, general, Fictional Works, Social life and customsPlaces
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Under en strålende sol
2009, Cicero
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english: A Thousand Splendid Suns
2008, Mu ma wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
2007, Center Point Publishing, Center Point
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After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.
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.
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