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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Start date: April 1, 2019

Finish date: April 30, 2019

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Sep 21, 2012 Zara Arshad rated it it was amazing

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This book was just as good as its predecessor, if not beter(in my opinion.)

I really liked Mariam's character. It was an unforgettable one. I think the saddest part was when she was killed unfairly in the end, but she died in place of the one she loved--the best way to die there is.

Next thing I liked about this book was the relation between Tariq and Laila. It was the cutest thing ever. They felt so comfortable around each other that it felt so natural to read about them. The tragedy that struck

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May 24, 2010 Shari Stauch rated it it was amazing

Adored this book - like Memoirs of a Geisha, it placed me deep within a world I wanted to understand...

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Jun 30, 2014 Sue rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction

I enjoy this book. It was definitely not a book I would have picked up myself if not for a group read. It was an insight into a culture that I know very little. I liked seeing that someone who is so mistreated through out her life with such hardships takes upon herself the mothering of someone not her own and helps bring more joy into her life. In Un conventional ways she spares others from the continence of what she had always had to endure knowing that it meant her own demise.

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