A Thousand Splendid Suns

Publisher details

Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Genre: Fiction
Released: 22 May, 2007

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Synopsis

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.

“'Only the hardest of hearts could fail to be as moved'” Glamour“'A masterful narrative ... He is a storyteller of dizzying power'” Evening Standard“'Hosseini has that rare thing, a Dickensian knack for storytelling'” Daily Telegraph

#44 in Australia's Top 100 2016

About the author

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world, with over thirty eight million copies of his books sold in more than seventy countries. The Kite Runner 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. 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. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California.