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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

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Feb 22, 2019 Pam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 2019-books-read, audio-book, afghanistan

AUTHOR Hosseini, Khaled
TITLE A Thousand Splendid Suns
DATE READ 02/22/19
RATING 4/B
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2008/ Simon & Shuster/11 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE GR 2019 Reading 28/111; Around the World in 80 Countries 2019-2021 9/80
GROUP READ Lowe Mill
CHARACTERS Laila and Mariam -- 2 Afghani women married to the same man
TIME/PLACE not sure 30 year period/ Afghanistan
COMMENTS Laila and Mariam are sister wives to the same man. They learn to endure and hope ...more

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Dec 06, 2018 Tiffany rated it it was amazing

Best book I have read this year! A must read!

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Nov 25, 2011 hannah rated it it was amazing

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Page 187 contains one of the most touching parts of the story before it's revealed to be a conspiracy, a lie. This lie brought together two main female characters, a generation apart, both witnesses of wars in Afghanistan and in their own lives. ...more

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