Reviews of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (ISBN:1594489505) | weRead
 
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Parul posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 brilliant book. Loved it. Powerful story about resilience, struggle, compassion and love.
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Silvia posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 Describe la situación de las mujeres afganas en los diferentes momentos de la historia reciente de este país.
La mujer privada de tantos derechos y libertades básicas.
La amistad como pieza fundamental.
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Trina posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 Loved it! Much better than the Kite Runner. I've given it as a gift many times and everyone has told me they've enjoyed it.
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Jessica posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 Wonderfully written. Wonderfully depressing.
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Alison posted a review at . (Language: English)
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Ted posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 War is hell. It tears bodies and families apart. It strikes at the worst times. It forces strangers together in the most intimate and humiliating ways. It destroys innocents with cruel indifference and passes harmlessly over the truly culpable. It leaves a trail of tears over the land, its people and time with barely a ray of hope for anyone. Such is the world of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, Khaled Hosseini's second remarkable book.

Like THE KITE RUNNER, this story is set in Hosseini's native Afghanistan during the roughly 30 years beginning in the early 1970s, when the country was at peace and 15-year old Mariam was still a young village girl living a hard life with her bitter mother and a rich, sometimes affectionate father she rarely sees and barely knows. The story follows through the years of Soviet occupation and the holy warriors -- mujahideen -- who resisted them and the later years of the Taliban who took their place and imposed their heinous collective will upon women in the name of God. It introduces us to the young, smart and beautiful Laila and shows us how her life becomes intertwined with Mariam's. It forces us to endure the treacherous brute Rasheed and the oppressive shadow he casts over all their lives. Finally, the arrival of al-Qaeda and a new kind of war.

Hosseini combines historical fact and imaginative plot twists with the skill of a master story teller. The book at times is as hard to bear as the lives of the characters you come care for, but the ray of optimistic light that sometimes pours through is as dazzling as a thousand splendid suns.
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【ツ】♥/MѦↁĦU\ɦ posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 heart touching...one should read this buk....
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Stephanie posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 Great not as good as Kite Runner
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Fay posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 Hard to get into, but worth the effort!
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Noelle posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 heartwrenching. a hard read, just b/c of the honesty...beautiful story.
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