{"product_id":"a-thousand-splendid-suns","title":"A Thousand Splendid Suns","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the \n\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers \n\u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eAnd the Mountains Echoed\u003c\/i\u003e. He is A U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious work. Once again the setting is Afghanistan, but this time [Hosseini] has taken the last 33 years of that country's tumultuous history of war and oppression and told it on an intimate scale, through the lives of two women.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Spectacular. . . . Hosseini's writing makes our hearts ache, our stomachs clench and our emotions reel. . . . Hosseini mixes the experiences of these women with imagined scenarios to create a fascinating microcosm of Afghan family life. He shows us the interior lives of the anonymous women living beneath identity-diminishing burqas... Hosseini writes in gorgeous and stirring language of the natural beauty and colorful cultural heritage of his native Afghanistan. . . . Hosseini tells this saddest of stories in achingly beautiful prose through stunningly heroic characters whose spirits somehow grasp the dimmest rays of hope.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Just as good, if not better, than Hosseini's best-selling first book, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eNewsweek \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Compelling\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Hosseini revisits Afghanistan for a compelling story that gives voice to the agonies and hopes of another group of innocents caught up in a war. . . . Mesmerizing . . . \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns \u003c\/i\u003eis the painful, and at times violent, yet ultimately hopeful story of two women's inner lives. Hosseini's bewitching narrative captures the intimate details of life in a world where it's a struggle to survive, skillfully inserting this human story into the larger backdrop of recent history.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hosseini . . . has followed his debut novel with another work of strong storytelling and engaging characters. . . . The story pulses with life. . . . Khaled Hosseini is simply a marvelously moving storyteller.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eSan Jose Mercury News \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hosseini's story . . . rings true as a universal story about victims of cruelty and those who lack the most fundamental of human rights. . . . Hosseini's work is uplifting, enlightening, universal. The author's love for his characters and for his country is palpable. In the end, \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns \u003c\/i\u003eis a love letter to a country and to a people. It is a celebration of endurance and survival in the face of unspeakable tragedy. This is a love song to anyone who has ever had a broken heart and to anyone who has ever felt powerless and yet still dares to dream. And yes, Hosseini has done it again.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The novel is beautifully written with descriptive details that will haunt you long after you finish reading it.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This [novel] tells the startling story of domestic adversaries who discover that survival in a horrific world is nearly impossible without compassion, love and solidarity. . . Hosseini's prose . . . can stun a reader with its powerful, haunting images.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Absolutely compelling on every level. It's nearly impossible for a novel--a work of fantasy and fabrication--to deliver a formidable blow, a pounding of the senses, a reeling so staggering that we are convinced the characters and their dilemmas are genuine. Such a persuasion is particularly difficult when the setting is Afghanistan, a country and culture many see as too strange for recognition, for empathy. But that's what Khaled Hosseini does again and again with \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Hosseini has the storytelling gift . . . [ \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e] offers us the sweep of historic upheavals narrated with the intimacy of family and village life. . . . What keeps this novel vivid and compelling are Hosseini's eye for the textures of daily life and his ability to portray a full range of human emotions, from the smoldering rage of an abused wife to the early flutters of maternal love when a woman discovers she is carrying a baby. . . . Hosseini's illuminating book [is] a worthy sequel to \n\u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Many of us learned much from \n\u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e. There is much more to be learned from \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e . . . a brave, honorable, big-hearted book\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The author's fans won't be disappointed with \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e--if anything, this book shows at even better advantage Hosseini's storytelling gifts.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hosseini has created two enormously winning female characters in Mariam and Laila, Afghan women born into very different circumstances but who have the same problems.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Hosseini] is a writer of unique sensitivities. . . . Hosseini embraces an old-fashioned storytelling unconcerned with literary hipness, unafraid of sentimentality, unworried about the sort of Dickensian coincidences that most contemporary American writers consider off-limits. . . . We are lucky . . . to have a writer of Hosseini's storytelling ambitions interpreting his culture and history for us with another large-hearted novel. . . . Despite the unjust cruelties of our world, the heroines of \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns \u003c\/i\u003edo endure, both on the page and in our imagination.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePropelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made \u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e a beloved classic, the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini's best-selling first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKhaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA stunning accomplishment, \n\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2007 pg. 68 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/26\/2007 pg. 52 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2007 pg. 187 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2007 pg. 39 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/15\/2007 pg. 58 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2007 pg. 68 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/28\/2007 pg. 59 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/25\/2007 pg. 86 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBest of Book Sense\/First 5 Yrs\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2007 pg. 1 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/24\/2007 pg. 78 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/31\/2007 pg. 59 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/28\/2007 pg. 83 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/25\/2008 pg. 75 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist Editors Choice\/Adult\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2008 pg. 10 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2008 pg. 11 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eALA Best Books Young Adults\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2008 pg. 1 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Fiction Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9781594489501, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/04\/2009 pg. 20 (EAN 9781594483851, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/03\/2007 pg. 58 (EAN 9781602850330, Library Binding)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/22\/2008 pg. 51 (EAN 9781602850330, Library Binding)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/09\/2014 pg. 18 (EAN 9781602850330, Library Binding)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/15\/2007 (EAN 9781594489518, Paperback) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/28\/2007 pg. 54 (EAN 9780743554459, Compact Disc)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLJ Best Audio Books\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2008 pg. 46 (EAN 9780743554459, Compact Disc)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496036368662,"sku":"9781594489501","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781594489501.jpg?v=1783051338","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/a-thousand-splendid-suns","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}