A Thousand Splendid Suns | 
|  | | | Title: | A Thousand Splendid Suns | | Author: | Khaled Hosseini | | Publisher: | Riverhead | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 22 May, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1594489505 / 9781594489501 | | List Price: | $25.95 | | You Save: | $10.38 | | Amazon Price: | $15.57 | |
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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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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:
• You Have Nothing To Complain About 04 May, 2008
this is a wonderful book that took me into the lives of two women who overcome so much just to survive in a dismal society. i cannot ever think that i have a hard life or anyone i know for that matter after reading this. i have also read the kite runner and think this is a better book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A61OEYA7ZL8JX
• A Tough "act" To Follow... 09 May, 2008
After reading this book a few months ago, I find it hard to read any other book.. I loved "Kite Runner" as well, but this book is so haunting, I can still remember every little detail - each character, the events, etc. I have never felt so much emotion from a single book. I tried to read "Eat Love Pray" right after and that book was so painful to read. Maybe if I read it before reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns" I would have seen what all the hype was about for "Eat Love Pray".. In fact I didn't even finish "Eat Love Pray". I went on to "Friday Night Knitting Club" which is extremely dull.. and I'm moving on to "Three Cups of Tea" which is about Pakistan and the Taliban and whatnot - so I'm HOPING it'll be similar to Khaled's writing..
Read this book NOW!! Best book I EVER, EVER read....
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3T463W6QR0P7G
• It Will Make Your Heart Sing 04 May, 2008
I will be brief - if you are not sure about whether or not you want to read this book - do not hesitate. It transports you to another world - makes you take these women into your heart and then your heart will sing despite the bittersweet aspects to the story. It is really wonderful - defines what a good book really is.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3K40CQNFGYP91
• Not Recommended 08 May, 2008
I found Miriam's story unremittingly depressing. I was ready to slit my wrists after 40 pages. I had to read the book for my book club so I persisted, hoping that there would be some hope, some redeeming feature. Nope. It appeared to me that this book was Miriam's story, and her story alone, but that it was such a hopeless, dreary tale that the story of the younger woman, which had some measure of happiness, had to be tacked on to make the book marketable.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A6ZV4L1K4VQKV
• A Real Page Turner 08 May, 2008
This book was so interesting that I finished it in 2 days. It depicted the customs and view of the way people live in Afghanistan while it told a beautiful story. It was easy to read and understand and made me see the way women are treated in this foreign country. Hosseini has a way with words that make you hungry for more reading. The service in receiving my book was awesome!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1KTCXUUNOGUGE
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