A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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| Title: | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Author: | Khaled Hosseini |
| Publisher: | Riverhead Trade |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 25 November, 2008 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 159448385X / 9781594483851 |
| List Price: | $16.00 |
| You Save: | $6.64 |
| Amazon Price: | $9.36 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
After more than 189 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list for The Kite Runner, 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
Amazon.com Review
It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini's compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope. We wanted to spread the word on the book as widely, and as soon, as we could. See below for an exclusive excerpt from A Thousand Splendid Suns and early reviews of the book from some of our top customer reviewers.--The Editors
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Customer Reviews:
• It's A Great Book!
28 February, 2010
engages the reader even in the beginning of the book, the plight of the women and the struggles in their daily lives provides great contrast with that of my own. Compared to them, I live in a immensely rich society with rights that they could never have dreamed of.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Muslim Insight.
02 March, 2010
Our current political climate has raised many questions about the Muslim community. This book gives great insight into the type of struggles associated within a society that is structured on total obedience. It also demonstrates sadly, the problems that occur when religion says that there are certain instances when it is alright to lie--as was done to the little girl in this story.
The story pulled out many emotions of injustice and sadness, but ended with a beautiful hope.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Enthralling
16 March, 2010
This book is absolutely amazing. Page-turner is absolutely the way to describe it. You will be pushing for the women to finally get out of their situation and hoping that the husband will fall sooner than later. The quiet sorrow that the main characters experience is so real that you'll be right there with them trying to grasp on to whatever shred of dignity and self they have left. One of the best books I've ever read. The author just does an unparalleled job of describing everything so well that the sensations can almost be personally felt.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Load Of Bull
03 March, 2010
I have not read this book and I am not going to read it. After reading the Kite Runner I have concluded that this writer is incapable of writing anything good. The Kite Runner was the second worst book I have read in last ten years. The worst was Da Vinci Code. At least Da Vinci Code didn't pretend to be 'literature'
- Amazon Customer Review
• Much Depth To This Tale Written In Simple Language
15 March, 2010
Having finished this book 2 weeks ago, I'm still thinking about it. It's powerful beyond anything I've read in the last 5 years, and yet, it's written simply, it reads quickly. No one needs a college degree to get through this one.
Based on this tale, which jives with news reports, the Soviets were the best thing to ever happen to Afghani women. Many were empowered individuals under Soviet occupation.
It is a sad tale, to be sure, but Khaleed Hosseini found a way to end it on a more positive note, which would not necessarily be the case for most women in Afghanistan, especially under the Taliban.
- Amazon Customer Review
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