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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
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- hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1594489505
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489501
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About This Item
New York: Penguin / Riverhead, May 2007. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 372 pages.
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.
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.
Synopsis
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan author Khaled Hosseini, his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. It focuses on the tumultuous lives of two Afghan women and how their lives cross each other, spanning from the 1960s to 2003. The book was released on May 22, 2007, and received favorable prepublication reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist, as well as reaching #2 on Amazon. com's bestseller list before its release.
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One of the most important books I have ever read in regard to the female human condition.
Details
- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- RWARE0000000765
- Title
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Author
- Khaled Hosseini
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- New As New
- Jacket condition
- As New
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594489505
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489501
- Publisher
- Penguin / Riverhead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- May 2007
- Keywords
- fiction, historical fiction, families, friendship, Kabul, Afghanistan
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Asia;
- Size
- 8vo
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