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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 www.bbc.co.uk
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!
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..
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.
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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
www.bbc.co.uk
BLASPHEMY!! :O
But it is a good book - I concur.
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.