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Fiction Literary

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by (author) Khaled Hosseini

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Nov 2008
Category
Literary
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780670064915
    Publish Date
    May 2007
    List Price
    $34.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780670064083
    Publish Date
    Nov 2009
    List Price
    $37.50
  • 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 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 intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly 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.

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 love—a stunning accomplishment.

 

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