num_pages: 370
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
titlecomplete: A Thousand Splendid Suns
characters: Tariq, Mariam, Rasheed, Laila
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Drama, Adult, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1471523
places: Herat, Afghanistan, Kabul
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: British Book Award
category: Best Read of the Year, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver), awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Viking Canada