by Khaled Hosseini · Riverhead · tapa dura · ISBN 9781594489501
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«A Thousand Splendid Suns» is the novel by Khaled Hosseini, published by Riverhead in hardback (372 pages, in English).
Set in Afghanistan, the novel follows Mariam and Laila, two women from different generations whose lives cross in Kabul over three decades of conflict. Amid violence and loss, they forge a bond that unites them as sisters and as mother and daughter, leading them to acts of love, sacrifice and resistance.
Originally published on 22 May 2007, it is Khaled Hosseini's second novel after «The Kite Runner». It won the British Book Award and the Book Sense Book of the Year in 2008.
For book clubs and readers of literary fiction interested in the recent history of Afghanistan and in female friendship and survival.
Khaled Hosseini or Khalid Husseini is an Afghan and American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Afghan as the protagonist. Hosseini's novels have spread awareness about Afghanistan's people and culture.
