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  • VERY good book!!! I wish I wouldn't have waited so long to read it now! I was mostly afraid it would be full of politics I couldn't understand, but it wasn't. I recommend this book to everyone!! It's been a while since I've read a book where I actually fall in love with some characters and hate oth ... Continue

    VERY good book!!! I wish I wouldn't have waited so long to read it now! I was mostly afraid it would be full of politics I couldn't understand, but it wasn't. I recommend this book to everyone!! It's been a while since I've read a book where I actually fall in love with some characters and hate others, this was that kind of book. These characters will stay with me for a long time.

    

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• ― mndy said on Feb 27, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • Not as great as The Kite Runner, but still great

  • Another intimate look into the unimaginably tough life of Afghanis - this time focusing on two women - over the course of their lifetimes. The settings border on unbelievable at times, but looking back over the course of the last 30 years in Afghanistan, it's not hard to imagine how brutal life can ... Continue

    Another intimate look into the unimaginably tough life of Afghanis - this time focusing on two women - over the course of their lifetimes. The settings border on unbelievable at times, but looking back over the course of the last 30 years in Afghanistan, it's not hard to imagine how brutal life can be under the changing regimes and war time atrocities.

    A very compelling read. Highly recommend this and The Kite Runner.

    

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• ― JaxSean said on May 21, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is a life changing story and worth every second you'll spend between the pages!

    

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  • I had to read this book after reading Hosseini's, The Kite Runner. His writing style is intense and realistic. He writes with lucidity and emotion. I was moved to tears in both books. What I especially loved about, A Thousand Splendid Suns was the friendship the women made in most terrible of circum ... Continue

    I had to read this book after reading Hosseini's, The Kite Runner. His writing style is intense and realistic. He writes with lucidity and emotion. I was moved to tears in both books. What I especially loved about, A Thousand Splendid Suns was the friendship the women made in most terrible of circumstances. Five stars *****

    

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• ― Livi Saphire said on May 5, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • A powerful novel.

    

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• ― Readingrat said on Nov 26, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  • A beautifully written book that's both moving and bittersweet. Hosseini shows the reader how the Soviet occupation, the tribal conflicts and the Taliban rule of Afghanistan affected the people on a daily level through the lives of Mariam and Laila.

    

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• ― krin5292 said on Oct 19, 2007 | Add your feedback

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.

A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

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