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A Thousand Splendid Suns by: Khaled Hosseini List Price: £16.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £10.00 You Save: £6.99 (41%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 9781847371164 Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 1847371167 Label: Simon & Schuster Audio Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio Number Of Pages: 5 Publication Date: May 22, 2007 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio Sales Rank: 4461 Related Items:
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 Rating: - "Knowing and loving are born of this same dust:""A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini is a book that the author researched while visiting Kabul. It is a story of friendship between two very dissimilar women who were ages apart in background and in education. They became close in order to survive and to endure the environment that they were forced to live in. The reader grows to understand that there existed between them a closeness like that of a mother and daughter. This intimacy was built upon much mutual respect and much love which these two (2) stunning characters generated for each other. The novel is really the story of the lives of Laila and Mariam. The title for this novel comes from a 17th Century poem by Saib-e-Tabrizi which was a beautiful poem written in ... Read More: Rating: - The Sins of the Fathers Are Visited on EveryoneA THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS tells the wonderful, intensely moving story of how two modern Afghan women overcome the great challenges that have faced women in Afghanistan and rise above their victimization. Khaled Hosseini has succeeded in capturing many important historical and contemporary themes in a way that will make your heart ache again and again. Why will your reaction be so strong? It's because you'll identify closely with the suffering of almost all the characters, a reaction that's very rare to a modern novel. In Part One, you meet Miriam at age five as she learns that she is a harami (an illegitimate child). Miriam's wealthy father, Jalil, had seduced a housekeeper, Miriam's mother, Nana, six years earlier and now provides ... Read More: |
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