A thousand splendid suns
- Authors
- Hosseini, Khaled
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Tags
- war , families , religion & spirituality , afghanistan , christianity , fiction , loss (psychology) , family life , fiction - general , adult , literary , domestic fiction , contemporary , family , family sagas , general , families - afghanistan , asian american novel and short story , arranged marriage , american contemporary fiction - individual authors + , intergenerational relations
- ISBN
- 9781594489501
- Date
- 2007-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.29 MB
- Lang
- en
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.
--front flap