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In his brilliant debut, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini mesmerized us with his evocative portraits and beautiful bittersweet story. Now he returns to tumultuous Afghanistan to tell the tale of an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love...
The child of an illicit affair, Mariam was raised by her single mother on the outskirts of town. At 14, she was sent to Kabul and sold in marriage to Rasheed, a widower decades older than she. But now after twenty years and no offspring, Rasheed takes a beautiful teenager, Laila, as his second wife. While Mariam despises Laila and the baby born months after her arrival, Rasheed's cruelty and the explosive changes in the country soon draw the women together.
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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, generalPlaces
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Under en strålende sol
2009, Cicero
in Danish
- 3. danske udgave, [1. oplag]
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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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- Chu ban
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A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini
Oct 01, 2008, Bloomsbury UK
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A thousand splendid suns
2007, Riverhead Books, Center Point
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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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