A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | A Wonderful Reading Experience!

A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | splendid story!!

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	A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Riverhead, 2007 - 372 pages average customer review:based on 1296 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Wonderful Reading Experience!

Having just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns I can now put aside any questions I had about Hosseini being able to write a book that can come close to matching the heartwarming and often heartwrenching reading experience he provided in The Kite Runner. A Thousand Splendid Sun is every bit as good as The Kite Runner -- and in many ways is even better! It is an astonishing, powerful book that had me riveted from the first to the last page, and is broader in scope than The Kite Runner. It is a story of two generations of characters brought 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. A Thousand Splendid Suns is not just a great, although overwhelmingly sad, story, it is history lesson 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 extremely intimate, human terms. Hosseini is a masterful writer whose prose and narrative style ooze emotion. If you have any hesitancy about reading this book, put your doubts aside and rush out to get yourself a copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns. You'll be very glad you did. It is not only a book that will keep you from doing anything else but turning the pages, it is a book that will stay in your head and heart for years to come. It is that good, although that tragic!

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splendid story!!

After reading The Kite Runner I felt that Hosseini's next book would be a disappointment.What a surprise!!! I was glued to this book, turning each page with a mixture of fear, dread and hopeful optimism.I felt that I had not read a book but lived through an unforgettable experience and bade a sad farewell to the people I had shared this with.

Inspirational

This book is one that truly depicts the horrible state thousands of Afghan women were in in the past 30 years or so. Khaled Hosseini was able to write another great book about a topic that is sometimes hidden from people. The story is of how 2 totally different women from different backgrounds came together to free themselves from the dangers that surrounded them every day. In the many struggles they went through, the 2 became even closer, and always planned to stay together. Using history as a base for people's lives was a good idea for Hosseini, and makes this story very realistic. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a must read, along with the Kite Runner, and is a story that will change your views on Afghanistan and other parts of the world.

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Incredible!

I loved The Kite Runner and was so pleased that this story also was incredible. I could not put this book down, it was captivating!

An easy read

I decided to purchase this book after a friend lent me The Kite Runner. I like the author's style of writing and it's a good story. I like how he conveys the history and the plight of the people living in Afghanistan by weaving facts into fiction. Most Americans (like me) don't have a clue about what goes on over there. They are real people, just like us, with families, pets, relationships, and educational/career goals who are blown to bits during war after war thrust upon them by others.

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