The story begins in 1974, as Mariam, an illegitimate child of a wealthy businessman from Herat, is growing up. It is generally honest enough to visit social and psychological areas away from the hackneyed propaganda of recent years to give a more informed and rounded appreciation of the life of Afghan women. Hosseini’s book takes its title from a poem written about Kabul by the seventeenth century poet Saib-e-Tabrizi. It follows two Afghan women, born two decades apart, whose lives are brought together through a series of largely tragic events. Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, like his first, The Kite Runner (made into a film, directed by Marc Forster), is set against the background of Afghanistan’s recent history. Publisher: Penguin Group (US edition), Bloomsbury (UK edition), 384 pp. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
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