TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hosseini,Khaled
TI  - A thousand splendid suns
SN  - 9781594489501
AV  - PS3608.H829.T468 2007 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Loss (Psychology)
KW  - Intergenerational relations
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Nuclear families
KW  - Family sagas
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Fictional Work
N2  - From the Publisher: After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years -- from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding -- that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives -- the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness -- are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love -- a stunning accomplishment; Mariam and Laila are born a generation apart but are brought together by war and fate. Together they endure the dangers surrounding them and discover the power of both love and sacrifice
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