A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2008
- Category
- Literary
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780670064915
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $34.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780670064083
- Publish Date
- Nov 2009
- List Price
- $37.50
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143054405
- Publish Date
- Nov 2008
- List Price
- $20.00
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After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty yearsâ”from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuildingâ”that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal livesâ”the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happinessâ”are inextricable from the history playing out around them.
Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible loveâ”a stunning accomplishment.
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