A Thousand Splendid Suns (Paperback) by Khaled Hosseini

It`s extremely hard for any writer to follow the success of such an outstandingly original and brilliant novel as The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini has pull it off! He has written a second novel which is better than the first.

This time Khaled Hosseini provides a wonderful insight into the lives of Afganistani women by dealing with race, culture, religion, sex, childhood, and everything else you can thing of, all in Afghanistan. It does not side-step the suffering of the ordinary people in Afgan under both Soviet and Taliban rule, from the 70's to present day.

Khaled Hosseini describes beautifully an unforgetable portrait of a wounded country and the deeply moving relationship between two Afganistani women called Mariam and Laila , two very different women who are ages apart in background and education. They are married to the same man. As the story progress, these two women come together and begin to have a common bond, in essence, having an awakening to what's happening around them. In the end, it is love that trimphs over hardship, death and destruction.

The very fact that Khaled Hosseini has been able to create the masterpiece of The Kite Runner and can then give us a very different flavour of charcter study in A Thousand Splendid Suns truly reflects that he is a versatile, accomplished writer
who is very far from a one-trick-pony.

Hosseini is very good at drawing out his characters, his style is distinctively fresh and insightful. This is simply a delightful book. From the second you open it, you fall in to the lives of the characters. Khaled Hosseini is extremely adept at character description making each character believable, vulnerable and likeable. He moves his characters and action around in such a way that you won't see much foreshadowing of what's to come. Part of that skill comes in making each page so interesting and engaging that you will find myself deeply inside the story throughout.

It will have you turning the pages quickly and not wanting to be disturbed till you finish, and then that feeling you get at the end of a good book, satisfaction tempered with disappointment that there is no more to be had.

About the Author
Khalid Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afganistan and moved to the United States in
1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner was an international best seller.
In 2006, he was named a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in Northern California.

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Also check out The Kite Runner from the same author.

Reviewed By Bosun Sogeke

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