<![CDATA[A Thousand Splendid Suns]]>

false <![CDATA[A Thousand Splendid Suns]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571567m/128029.jpg 128029 57 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. 3271379 book 2006 A Thousand Splendid Suns total:84298|5:41423|4:30350|3:10109|2:1877|1:539| 84298 363138 119569 16528 4 138 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 04 16:09:12 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 27 14:57:33 -0800 2008
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hosseini was disappointing for me for several reasons...

1. this text and the kite runner are touted for their 'brave and unapologetic' ...more...]]> 5 28 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 29 05:51:13 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 27 03:18:41 -0800 2008
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Khaled here. As I was reviewing my final draft of “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” some questions occurred to me.

1. Could I make the characters any less complex? Despite my efforts, I feel I haven’t fully achieved the one-dimensionality my readers seemed to l...more...]]> 4 17 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 07:21:47 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 07:57:09 -0800 2007
Afghani-born novelist Khaled Hosseini enthralled readers with “The Kite Flyer,” his first novel, which was constructed around the friendship between Amir, a privileged Pashtun Sunni born in Kabul, and his boyhood friend and servant Ha...more...]]> 4 11 false false Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 05:06:54 -0800 2008 Wed Jun 11 06:45:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 13 false true Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 25 16:19:11 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 13:32:23 -0800 2008
I must say first, that for not being a woman or a mother, Hosseini sure understands what it feels like to be one. His descriptions of the range of emotions the women in th...more...]]> 5 15 false false Mon Dec 10 17:09:07 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 29 11:42:20 -0700 2008
A Thousand Splendid Suns
By Khaled Hosseini

Reviewed by Tom Carrico

It’s amazing that this author has the #1 fiction paperback (The Kite Runner) and the #1 fiction hardback (A Thousand Splendid Suns) on “The New York Times” bestseller list. Th...more...]]> 0 10 false false Tue Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 11:07:36 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 02 15:54:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 8 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 02 02:12:16 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 14:01:44 -0700 2007
Hosseini's first book, "The Kite Runner" is quite truthfully, one of the best novels I have ever had the pleasure of reading and I can state most elatedly that "A Thousand Spl...more...]]> 2 18 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 23:03:30 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 16:32:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 6 false false Sun Sep 14 20:05:20 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 15 14:03:56 -0800 2008
The writing is absolutely beautiful. The pictures ...more...]]> 3 6 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Oct 11 19:27:12 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 19:29:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 5 true false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 07:21:50 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 19:28:36 -0800 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns is not a happy book. The lives of the two main characters mirror, internalize and reflect back a metaphor for Afghanistan's brutal, weary, bruised history. Whereas I read The Kite Runner as a retelling of Les Miserables, A Thousand Splendid Suns stands in its own, telling ...more...]]> 4 5 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 03 14:16:58 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 10:25:19 -0700 2007 tore through this book. Literally read it in about eight hours (my day off). It was an entertaining read, and sad, but I wasn't uplifted by it; it lacked profundity. It's not one of the books that I would read again and again. But maybe that's got to do with the fact that I prefer happier stories....more...]]> 3 5 false false Wed Aug 20 00:22:51 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 00:23:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 4 false false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 15:09:44 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 09:53:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 4 false false Tue Dec 04 12:05:10 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 11:05:44 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 18:11:17 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 18:27:45 -0800 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns from my local library, and after waiting four months, I decided to request The Kite Runner since it was Hosseini's first book. I ended up getting both at the same time, but I listen to TKR in the car while commuting to my daughter's school,so I finished ATSS firs...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=128029