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After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them.
Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment.

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Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. Mariam is the scorned illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, forced at age 15 into marrying the 40-year-old Rasheed, who grows increasingly brutal as she fails to produce a child. Eighteen later, Rasheed takes another wife, 14-year-old Laila, a smart and spirited girl whose only other options, after her parents are killed by rocket fire, are prostitution or starvation. Against a backdrop of unending war, Mariam and Laila become allies in an asymmetrical battle with Rasheed, whose violent misogyny 'There was no cursing, no screaming, no pleading, no surprised yelps, only the systematic business of beating and being beaten' is endorsed by custom and law. Hosseini gives a forceful but nuanced portrait of a patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the bearing of male children being their sole path to social status. His tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters.

Splendid, indeed

Heart wrenching as it is heart touching.
It is most definitely feel it was well catered to many women, and recommend anyone who is interested in Afghanistan’s culture and war history, as well as the experiences many women endured; the bonds they make and break (in a FAR from cliché fashion); then to give this a gander. Once you start reading, it’s hard to stop (and this is from someone who is both a slow reader, and has difficulties finishing books).

Thousand splendid suns

In love with this book !!! Thinking of reading it again. I just am in love the content and reality of the story line

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Set in contemporary Afghanistan from the mid-1960’s to the American invasion in 2001, A Thousand Splendid Suns celebrates two powerful Muslim heroines. It tells the story of two women, a generation apart, one an uneducated bastard child and the other an educated modern beauty, who are each married to the same brutal man, 15 years apart. Cold to one another at first, they bond in a loving mother-daughter relationship and make heroic sacrifices for one another as war surrounds them and their husband’s abuse mounts. A story of love and passion, it’s two heroines emerge as symbols of a universal bond that exists between women.

Music by Sheila Silver
Libretto by Stephen Kitsakos
based on the international best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini

“A Thousand Splendid Suns” is more than a story of survival in the face of what seem to be insurmountable odds. It is a story of the unconquerable spirit of a people and individuals seen through the eyes of two indomitable women.”

– Contemporary Literature

Composer’s Statement:

I wanted to write an opera about these women because I fell in love with them – their courage, their heroism, and the depth of their humanity. I see A Thousand Splendid Suns as a universal story of love. Audiences will identify with these women as they discover that the human spirit can survive and transcend the most challenging of circumstances.