An edition of A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

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An edition of A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Large Print
  • 4.5 (94 ratings) ·
  • 1,119 Want to read
  • 71 Currently reading
  • 151 Have read

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.
--back cover

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Edition Notes

Published in
Thorndike, ME, USA
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2007

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3608.O832 K58 2007b, PS3608.O832 T56 2007B

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17179670M
ISBN 10
160285033X
ISBN 13
9781602850330
LCCN
2007010108
OCLC/WorldCat
962219796, 975965696
Google
Ho0tLYfLZqAC
Library Thing
3181280
Goodreads
46039832

Work Description

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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Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.
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