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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Start date: December 3, 2018

Finish date: December 31, 2018

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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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Oct 18, 2019 Ankit Saxena rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, friendship, classics, cultures, assault, wartime-writings, mine, family, military, based-on-true-events

It is not the book that you hold in your hands but it's the other way round. The way this book grips you is beyond imagination. Though I have lot of fascination for the books set in middle-east, Afghanistan (specifically) and African Continent, but, still that this is the kind of book that maintains that fascination in me.

“Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami”; this was quite a very unexpected starting from any writer but the way this leads further depict the depth ...more

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Sep 25, 2021 La Tonya Jordan rated it it was amazing

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I am still trying to recover from this excellent read. It is a novel from the headlines of today that was written in 2007. It is a story of Mariam, Laila, and the history of Afghanistan. Mariam was born an harami, a bastard, in a country where this is completely shameful. She is forced to marry at fifteen and spend the next twenty-five years being the wife of a tyrant and not truly knowing her full worth until it was much too late.

Laila, was the daughter of progressive parents, who wanted her e ...more

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Sep 06, 2016 Catherine rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, 2016, diverse-reads

Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres, speficially for its ability to transport the reader to a time and place that actually existed. I especially enjoy historical fiction set in cultures I'm not familiar with. With that in mind, I chose this book, and while I now have a clearer picture of Afghanistan in the decades leading up to the rise of the Taliban, I'm left feeling absolutely wrung out. The frequent and graphic brutality and cruelty heaped upon the two female protagonists is both ...more

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Feb 25, 2017 Diana Long rated it it was amazing

50. Afghanistan is where this story takes place from the Soviet War, the civil war and a people trying to pick up the pieces and start over. I thought the author wrote an excellent story and gave a glimpse into the life of the people in this country.

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