Thousand Splendid Suns

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Beautiful and Heartwrenching

4 months ago

Told from the point of view of two Afghani women, A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the story of Mariam and Laila, two strong women drawn together trying to survive and overcome the obstacles and oppression that has been a part of the history of Afghanistan over the past thirty years. Khaled Hosseini shows the reality of the political landscape in Kabul to a frightening realism and shows what it has been like living under the leadership of the Taliban, not only for women but men as well. However… + read more

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what a great read!

This review is from: Thousand Splendid Suns (Trade Paperback)

3 weeks ago

what a beautiful, sad,motivated and devistating book. It was definetly amazing picturing it through someone elses eyes. What a great book!!

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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Book Review)

9 months ago

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a number one bestseller. It is published by Bloomsbury in paperback and its ISBN is 978074758297724. It is a wonderful romance story but also a powerful and sad insight into war and the carnage and chaos it causes. One cannot read this and be unmoved by the suffering of women in Kabul during the Taliban rule. It is told from a female perspective. It catalogues the lack of education of women, rapes, beatings, arranged marriages, head covering and… + read more

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Lauded for no reason at all

This review is from: Thousand Splendid Suns (Trade Paperback)

4 weeks ago

Personally, I thought that the subject of the treatment of women in Afghanistan was intriguing - most everyone knows of the liberties the media takes regarding the altering of info available to the public, so the promise of this book was simple and inviting: to uncover a bit of truth. However, this promise faded after a few chapters when I found out how shallow the writing was, and that it suffered from the same affliction as Dave Eggers' 'What is the What' - it's an easy way out for those… + read more

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Amazing

10 months ago

omg this books was amaizing! it really caught my intrest becasue it is about women in Afghanistan and how they deal with abussive husbands, war and other things to! i loved this book it was amazing! its a must read!

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Wonderful Eye Opener

This review is from: Thousand Splendid Suns (Trade Paperback)

6 weeks ago

Again Khaled Hosseini has open my eyes to a worl of hardship and customs that we would never think were possible. To capture the story of two females that went through the wars and leaderships that they did, and too tell it in such a way that you can picture and feel the things they are going through, amazing!

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EXCELLENT

10 months ago

After reading the Kite Runner I rushed out to buy Hosseini's second novel. Hosseini has captured 30 yrs of history and woven it with marvelous characters. Some you will despise and some you will love and feel long after you put this book down. When you do put this down though, you will have a greater understanding of Afghanistan and the turmoil that existed and still does. I highly recommend this book!!

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Wow!

This review is from: Thousand Splendid Suns (Trade Paperback)

3 months ago

4.5 stars. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a rich father and his housekeeper. The story follows her, from the 1970s through the 2000s during her lifetime in Afghanistan. I won’t summarize anymore, as I don’t want to give anything away. Wow! This may shape up to be one of my favourite books read in 2009. A couple of times I had to double check that it was written by a man, he does such an incredible job of telling the life of two women in Afghanistan, and the struggles that they go… + read more

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Great ~ but very sad.

12 months ago

I read this book with great enthusiasm ~ well written and an easy read. This author keeps the story moving well... I liked it almost as much as The Kite Runner. But I found it depressing and sad... the violence described herein made me angry ~ not at the author, but at the atrocities that are perpetrated against women in this part of the world. Believable? Yes... Disturbing? Yes... This book's ending made me feel good again ~ but it was overshadowed by the reality of what is still… + read more

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