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An edition of A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

Tausend strahlende Sonnen

  • 4.5 (93 ratings) ·
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Klappentext der deutschen Ausgabe

Wie in seinem Welterfolg DRACHENLÄUFER erzählt Khaled Hosseini erneut eine zutiefst bewegende Geschichte aus seinem Heimatland: von Leid und Ohnmacht, aber auch vom außergewöhnlichen Mut zweier afghanischer Frauen.

Die unehelich geborene Mariam wird mit fünfzehn ins ferne Kabul geschickt, wo sie mit dem dreißig Jahre älteren Witwer Raschid verheiratet wird. Zwanzig Jahre später erlebt das Nachbarkind Laila ein ähnliches Schicksal. Auch ihr bleibt keine Wahl: Nachdem ihre Familie bei einem Bombenangriff getötet wurde und sie erfährt, dass auch ihr Jugendfreund Tarik ums Leben gekommen ist, wird sie Raschids Zweitfrau. In dem bis dahin kinderlos gebliebenen Haushalt bringt Laila eine Tochter und einen Sohn zur Welt.

Während der Taliban-Herrschaft machen Bombardierungen, Hunger und physische Gewalt
das Leben der Familie zur Qual. Die Not lässt die beiden unterschiedlichen Frauen zu Freundinnen werden und ihre Stärke schließlich ins Übermenschliche wachsen. Khaled Hosseini gelingt es wieder auf unvergleichliche Weise, seine Figuren so lebendig und authentisch werden zu lassen, dass der Leser sich mit ihrem Schicksal identifiziert.

KHALED HOSSEINI wurde 1965 in Kabul als Sohn eines Diplomaten geboren. Seine Familie erhielt 1980 in den Vereinigten Staaten politisches Asyl. Er lebt heute als Arzt und Autor in Kalifornien. Sein Roman DRACHENLÄUFER erschien in vierzig Sprachen und hat eine Weltauflage von sieben Millionen Exemplaren.

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Bloomsbury Berlin
Language
German
Pages
384

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Hardcover
Number of pages
384

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OL25168012M

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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May 29, 2019 Edited by Lisa Moved edition to primary work.
January 15, 2012 Edited by Rudolfo Valentino Added new cover
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January 15, 2012 Created by Rudolfo Valentino Added new book.