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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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Feb 02, 2012 Hend rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, favorite-novels, unique-novels, 20-books-guaranteed-to-make-u-cry, asian-literature, read-these-and-you-re-well-read

I have never cried while reading a book,like I Did while reading this one!

It is the story of poor, uneducated women who have to endure the hardships of life...
The horrors and terrors that a lot of women have gone through during certain period in Afghanistan, the war torn country ,and the narration through the lives of two women Mariam and Laila..

Going through All kinds of Physical abuse of hitting, kicking and slapping ,brutal beating ,etc….
Struggling the cruel extremely sadistic Rasheed, And s ...more

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Jul 24, 2012 F rated it it was amazing

Shelves: afghanistan-kabul, historical-fiction

Loved this!

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Jun 18, 2012 Colleen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned-on-the-shelf

Great, moving story, told from the other side. So intricate, lovely characters, and heart breaking challenges of what war and violence does to people. I'm glad he writes the books he does.

Allah on one side Akbar (God is great/er/est) on the other (watermelon split open w/the seeds spelling out the words.

They'll comfort you too, Mariam jo. You can summon them in your time of need, and they won't fail you. God's words will never betray you, my girl.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing, Mari ...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Alana rated it really liked it

Shelves: foreign-culture, historical-fiction

I really don't know where to begin with this one. It's the first book I've ever read taking place in Afghanistan and the perspective was very enlightening. I was afraid when the stories of the women began to intertwine that it was going to just be a Lifetime drama of battered women who rise above, but while it had that element to it, that's not what it was about. It's about a land and culture very different from my own, but with its own unique beauty, cultural heritage and history. The plight of ...more

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Sep 27, 2016 Maya B rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 1st-time-reading-this-author, favorites, afghanistan

this is my first book by this author and I really enjoyed it. the author gives you a picture of what life is like for Afgani women. This is a very heartbreaking book to read, but there is nothing exciting about living in a war torn country. This book made me appreciate even more my own freedom in the U.S.

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Jun 10, 2012 Samantha rated it it was amazing

Shelves: around-the-world-in-80

Amazing, simply an amazing story. Beautifully written and heart-clenching through-out it's entirety. I stayed up all night reading just hoping that the lives of these strong female leads would get better. "It has to get better" I'd tell myself, but then secretly worried I wouldn't get my American happily ever-after ending that I'm accustomed to. I literally want to buy this book in bulk and hand it out to people who complain about the minutest things in their reasonably easy lives. Everyone shou ...more

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Jan 23, 2019 Heather rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook

After immensely enjoying The Kite Runner a few years, I intended to read everything else Khaled Hosseini had written but I never quite got around to it. This book was so well done - of course I expected no less, but it was so different from The Kite Runner too and it felt much more conflicted and heart-wrenching. I loved this and all of the emotions that it stirred. So well written and so intense and such a harsh look into this period of time.

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