A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, 2007
Two Afghan women, a generation apart, are thrown together by war and a violent marriage—and discover what loyalty can be built from ruin.
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini's three novels all begin in Afghanistan and then follow their people outward, into lives shaped by distance, guilt, and family bonds that don't break cleanly. Start with «The Kite Runner», his first: a boy's betrayal of a friend in 1970s Kabul sets off a long, unresolved reckoning. If you want the same emotional gravity told through two women thrown together by war and a violent marriage, «A Thousand Splendid Suns» is the one to pick up next.
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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul in 1965, left Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion, and trained as a physician in California.
How long it takes before cruelty becomes ordinary.
It wasn’t easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. And Mariam was afraid. Books by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, 2003
A boy in 1970s Kabul betrays the friend who would do anything for him, and spends the rest of his life learning whether a person can be good again.
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini, 2013
A father's impossible choice in a village fable opens into a novel about siblings, separation, and the long echo of one decision.
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