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of A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini

This is the second novel by Khaled Hosseini after the tremendous success was her literary debut: Kite . I discovered this author by a former neighbor who recommended it to me and I love everything I've read it, although to date are few and hope to publish more. Hosseini is an Afghan doctor who was born in 1965 and left Kabul to escape with his family to America in 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The two novels he has published so far deal with stories that could well be true, always with the last three decades of Afghanistan as a backdrop. If you wish, you may remember my review of The Kite here, which was one of the most and raw emotional novels I have ever read.

Thousand Splendid Suns is also a very hard book that almost did not release me until I could finish it. He had bought some time and I was missing out, I do not know why. This year is one of the novels recommended Challenge and there I saw the perfect excuse to read it at last. This time we find the story of two women, Mariam and Laila. Both are very different in character, social and age differences, but they face the same fate: a marriage with a stranger, an older man and very aggressive supporter of the burka (among other things). Each of the faces in its own way, keeping their true feelings and desires, always thinking about what could be and was not. One is submissive, the other a little more rebellious, but the two host in terms of its value and desire to fight. The timeline is set since the Russians invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to almost present day, through the Soviet defeat the Taliban and their regime ... Thus, we review the recent history of this country, which is very interesting.

The prose is straightforward, making it easier to read. But in my case, I've read so fast because I wanted to get to the end to see how this story just so sad. Any of my wishes for Mariam and Laila, I have been fulfilled, others not. In both novels this author has always managed to surprise me and I'd really like to read more about him, but has not done more books since 2007. Well, I think it captures that Thousand Splendid Suns loved me and no doubt I will recommend. It is cruel and emotional, but at the same time we can see that during the war, there is also room for friendship and courage. Indeed, the title is taken from a poem about Kabul who wrote Saib-e-Tabrizi in the seventeenth century. The book quotes two verses that I've loved:

countless moons were shining on their roofs,

or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind walls.

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Read: 8 al 16 March 2011
Original title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Translation: Gema Moral Bartolomé
Publisher: Salamandra
Edition: Third (November 2009)
Format:
Pocket ISBN: 978-84-9838-232-7
Pages: 413
Price: € 9.50

CHALLENGES

This book helps me to Books Challenge 2011 Colors (yellow), 50 Books Challenge 2011 (estimates are 10 and getting afraid that will not overcome this challenge) and with Chemistry Challenge 2011 (My use of the challenge: Recommendation 1).