A
Thousand Splendid Suns
Kaitou Jeanne
This is probably the best book I've read all summer. I simply could not put
it down! I actually felt like I was seeing through the eyes of the main
characters in this story. I can't even begin to relate to all the emotions I
felt as I read each chapter, and some of the horror of what living in civil
war and poverty must be like. The thought that women are still hideously
abused in the ways described in the book sickens me. I can't imagine having
to live through what these two characters lived through day in and day out,
with little to no hope of ever finding happiness. It makes me feel greatful
to be a women living in the USA...
Bettye Johnson,
award-winning author, Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls.
Well written and it takes the reader into the sordid, sad lives of women and
female children in Afghanistan. For me, the background setting of the
Russian invasion, and the turmoil up to this century is nothing compared to
the treatment Afghan women have gone through. It is time to stop the
inhumane treatment of women and children in the world now.
Allan Wilford Howerton, author, "War's Wake" ...
More than ninety percent of Khaled Hosseini's new novel, "A Thousand
Splendid Suns," is a story of depraved human brutality. Only in the last
thirty-four of its three hundred sixty-seven pages do the relentless
cruelties of the ten thousand plus days of Afghanistan's last thirty years
finally give way to the emergence of the splendid suns promised by the
title. Yet, even this glimmer of light is shadowed as a speeding SUV, one of
the many such vehicles of over-lording warlords who have returned to Kabul,
barely misses taking the life of the book's heroin and her children. It is a
disturbing warning that all is not yet well in this atrociously unhappy
land.
By the time we reach
the first quote from the seventeenth century poem which gives the novel its
title,
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A Thousand Splendid Suns 
