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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini


I'm currently reading the new Khaled Hosseini (to be published this May) and, I never thought I'd say this, but it's even better than The Kite Runner! Just thought everyone would like to know!
 

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Login to find out (April 13, 2008 at 2:43pm)
This book was wonderful..just a bit depressing! I loved the characters...overall it was a great read!
 
Login to find out (January 26, 2008 at 4:56am)
Well I recommend The Afghan Beauty School for somethin more light hearted....well if u can cease bein judgemental about the real life characters and how they live their lives.
 
Login to find out (January 26, 2008 at 4:56am)
Well I recommend The Afghan Beauty School for somethin more light hearted....well if u can cease bein judgemental about the real life characters and how they live their lives.
 
Login to find out (January 26, 2008 at 4:56am)
Well I recommend The Afghan Beauty School for somethin more light hearted....well if u can cease bein judgemental about the real life characters and how they live their lives.
 
Login to find out (August 29, 2007 at 7:39am)
lol !! You're 'allo allo' suggestion cracked me up. Although you're right something a little light hearted wouldn't go amiss. Nows the time to bring some comedy into Afghanistan... its always good to read about the doom and gloom as well the laughter and the joy.
 
Login to find out (August 28, 2007 at 12:37pm)
Just finished reading this book. It was very good but, oh so depressing. Not as good as the Kite Runner though although maybe I feel that way because the Kite Runner was fresh and new whereas I think readers were already expecting the worst from this book.

Now if someone could only write a comedy set in Afghanistan during the war years. Something along the lines of 'Allo Allo which was a comedy set during WW II
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Login to find out (June 25, 2007 at 7:17pm)
"but it's even better than The Kite Runner! Just thought everyone would like to know!:

BLASPHEMY!! :O

But it is a good book - I concur.
 
Login to find out (June 20, 2007 at 3:13pm)
I am currently reading it - sensitive, poignant but a bit depressing for a summer read.
 
Login to find out (June 20, 2007 at 5:12am)
I only read a review of this in the sunday papers and it sounded thoroughly depressing and upsetting! I guess they only focussed on the first parts of the story in the review, maybe the story lifts after that? I don't know... I have yet to read The Kite Runner, I've had a copy for years and haven't got round to starting it!
 
Login to find out (June 10, 2007 at 9:15pm)
I absolutely loved this book.
 
Login to find out (May 30, 2007 at 4:34pm)
i bought it the day it came out but i am having mid terms :( so cant read it...but i read few pages and so didnt want to stop but i had no choice...and best part is that i understand all the farsi and pushto words he uses in the book...so it makes it more interesting to read..
 
Login to find out (March 27, 2007 at 2:20pm)
wow. i cant wait till its published. how do i get your job??
 
Login to find out (February 7, 2007 at 12:30pm)
Scott Rudin just optioned film rights, by the way.
 
Login to find out (February 6, 2007 at 11:40am)
I'm looking for a good book to read, can't wait to get my hands on it .. no chance in sending your copy to me ?!?!? hehehe
 
Login to find out (February 6, 2007 at 9:11am)
kite runner made me cry buckets and affected my mood for days. looks like this one is going to be the same. better stock up on kleenex now
 
Login to find out (January 26, 2007 at 11:35pm)
Just really jealous Sabilak. How do you get an advanced copy anyway...
 
Login to find out (January 25, 2007 at 11:51pm)
Whatever Sipa. I'm sharing information with people who I know will appreciate it.
 
Login to find out (January 25, 2007 at 10:07pm)
Show off....
 
Login to find out (January 25, 2007 at 1:29pm)
In the interest of time, I present to you Amazon.com's description of novel. By the way, I was telling a business associate about the novel over lunch the other day and he says, "Do you realize you're crying?" I was totally tearing up. It's THAT good you guys.

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.
 
Login to find out (January 24, 2007 at 11:37pm)
can you give us a hint as to what its about...is it set in afghanistan as well?