A Thousand Splendid Suns - Review, Significance, Summary and More..
About: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afgan-American author Khalid Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-daughter story" in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a "father-son story". Summary: This book is set in Afganistan from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Mariam, a young girl in the 1960s, grows up outside Herat, a small city in Afganistan. Mariam has complicated feelings about her parents: She lives with her spiteful and stubborn mother, Nana; while her father Jalil, a successful businessman, visits Mariam - his only illegitimate child - once a week. Mariam resents her limited place in Jalil's life; she wants to live with him, his 3 wives and her half-siblings in Herat. Mariam walks Herat and finds Jalil's house but he doesn't let her in, so she sleeps on the street. The next Morning, Jalil's chauffeur drives Mar...