A Thousand Splendid Suns - Hardcover

Hosseini, Khaled

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670064912 ISBN 13: 9780670064915

Publisher: Viking Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670064912
• ISBN 13: 9780670064915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1