A Thousand Splendid Suns

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THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A suspenseful epic Daily Telegraph A triumph Financial Times Heartbreaking Mail on Sunday Deeply moving Sunday Times Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

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In case youre wondering whether A Thousand Splendid Suns is as good as The Kite Runner, heres the answer: No. Its better * Washington Post *
A masterful narrative He is a storyteller of dizzying power * Evening Standard *
Hosseini has that rare thing, a Dickensian knack for storytelling * Daily Telegraph *
A gripping tale It is, too a powerful portrait of female suffering and endurance under the Taliban * Daily Mail *
A beautifully crafted and disturbing story As unforgettable as The Kite Runner, this novel places us in Afghanistan with an open heart -- Isabel Allende
A heartfelt saga that encompasses romance and melodrama, personal and political intrigue, the onslaught of war and dispossession * Independent *
If he cut his teeth by writing about his countrymen, it is the plight of Afghanistans women that has brought him to realise his full powers as a novelist * The Times *
A Thousand Splendid Suns has all the particularity of a novel and all the force of a fable It reads, in many ways, like an old-fashioned romance adventure * Mail on Sunday *
Hosseini has done it again A Thousand Splendid Suns is a triumph. In Khaled Hosseini, Afghanistan has at last found a voice * Financial Times *

Author Bio

Khaled Hosseini is the author of The Kite Runner, which was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. And the Mountains Echoed was chosen for the Richard & Judy Summer Book Club in 2014, and readers voted it as their favourite of all the titles. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. Sea Prayer, his fourth book, was inspired by Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015. Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California. khaledhosseini.com @khaledhosseini