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Superando con creces el rotundo éxito de Cometas en el cielo &@8212;más de seis millones de ejemplares vendidos en treinta idiomas&@8212; la segunda novela de Khaled Hosseini saltó de inmediato al primer puesto en todos los países donde se ha publicado. Nueva demostración del asombroso instinto de gran narrador de que goza el autor, el libro cuenta la conmovedora historia de amistad entre dos mujeres afganas de orígenes muy dispares, cuyos destinos se entrelazan por obra del azar y de las convulsiones que ha sufrido Afganistán en los últimos treinta años.Hija ilegítima de un rico hombre de negocios, Mariam se cría con su madre en una modesta vivienda a las afueras de Herat. A los quince años, su vida cambia drásticamente cuando su padre la envía a Kabul a casarse con Rashid, un hosco zapatero treinta años mayor que ella. Casi dos décadas más tarde, Rashid encuentra en las calles de Kabul a Laila, una joven de quince años sin hogar. Cuando el zapatero le ofrece cobijo en su casa, que deberá compartir con Mariam, entre las dos mujeres se inicia una relación que acabará siendo tan profunda como la de dos hermanas, tan fuerte como la de madre e hija. Pese a la diferencia de edad y las distintas experiencias que la vida les ha deparado, la necesidad de afrontar las terribles circunstancias que las rodean &@8212;tanto de puertas adentro como en la calle, donde la violencia política asola el país&@8212;, hará que Mariam y Laila vayan forjando un vínculo indestructible que les otorgará la fuerza necesaria para superar el miedo y dar cabida a la esperanza
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desertion, Sufism, Pashhtuns, domestic abuse, Tajiks, Taliban, Pinocchio, Literature, Families, Family, Intergenerational relations, Women, Loss (Psychology), Family relationships, Family sagas, Friendship, Families -- Fiction., Fiction, Ehefrau, Social conditions, Arranged marriage, Ehemann, Unterdrückung, Family life, Afghanistan, fiction, Fiction, family life, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), General, Frauenfreundschaft, Altersunterschied, Large type books, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-12-14, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Familia, Novela, Afganistán, Fiction, family life, general, Fictional Works, Social life and customsPlaces
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Under en strålende sol
2009, Cicero
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english: A Thousand Splendid Suns
2008, Mu ma wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini
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After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns 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.
Born 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.
A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
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