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Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fictional Work Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hosseini, Khaled. Thousand splendid suns. New York : Riverhead Books, 2007 (OCoLC)607530867 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Khaled Hosseini |
ISBN: | 9781594489501 1594489505 9780743554435 0743554434 9781594483851 159448385X |
OCLC Number: | 85783363 |
Awards: | Winner of British Book Awards: Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year Award 2008 Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2009 Short-listed for British Book Awards: Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award 2008 Short-listed for British Book Awards: Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2008 |
Description: | 372 pages ; 24 cm |
Series Title: | Tayshas high school reading list, 2008-2009. |
Responsibility: | Khaled Hosseini. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Mariam and Laila are born a generation apart but are brought together by war and fate. Together they endure the dangers surrounding them and discover the power of both love and sacrifice.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a number one bestseller. It is published by Bloomsbury in paperback and its ISBN is 978074758297724. It is a wonderful romance story but also a powerful and sad insight into war and the carnage and chaos it causes. One cannot read this and be unmoved...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a number one bestseller. It is published by Bloomsbury in paperback and its ISBN is 978074758297724. It is a wonderful romance story but also a powerful and sad insight into war and the carnage and chaos it causes. One cannot read this and be unmoved by the suffering of women in Kabul during the Taliban rule. It is told from a female perspective. It catalogues the lack of education of women, rapes, beatings, arranged marriages, head covering and their low social status in vivid detail. The main character is Miriam who at the tender age of five discovers she is illegitimate and gradually becomes to realise her father does not acknowledge her in public and has her living in a hut miles from civilisation. When her mum Nana commits suicide her father Jalil runs her out of town and marries her at 15 years of age to a 45 year old man. Rasheed her husband inflicts upon her a life of beatings and torment. Until he takes a second wife Laila and things get worse for Miriam. Slowly the women form a friendship that eventually leads to a mother and daughter type of relationship. Miriam in a final confrontation with the violent Rasheed stabs him to death to give Laila freedom and a new life. While Miriam is sent to prison, Lalia, Tariq and the kids escape to Pakistan until it is safe to return home to Kabul. They return to help rebuild it and start work in an orphanage. Lalia becomes pregnant, a new life, a new beginning, the ultimate metaphor for the rebirth of Kabul. This is a beautiful novel depicting the cruelty of war and the beauty of family and romance. I highly recommend this novel. Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of Always and Forever and The Honey Trap.
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Frauenschicksal in Afghanistan
Während Khaled Hosseini in seinem Buch "Drachenläufer" die Freundschaft zwischen zwei Knaben beschreibt, geht es in "Tausend strahlende Sonnen" um die Freundschaft zwischen zwei Frauen. Beide sind mit demselben Mann verheiratet. Die erste Ehefrau wuchs als uneheliches Kind in ärmlichen...
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Während Khaled Hosseini in seinem Buch "Drachenläufer" die Freundschaft zwischen zwei Knaben beschreibt, geht es in "Tausend strahlende Sonnen" um die Freundschaft zwischen zwei Frauen. Beide sind mit demselben Mann verheiratet. Die erste Ehefrau wuchs als uneheliches Kind in ärmlichen Verhältnissen ohne Bildung auf. Sie erleidet mehrere Fehlgeburten, bevor sie sich damit abfindet, keine Kinder zu bekommen. Die zweite Ehefrau wächst in gutbürgerlichen Verhältnissen auf, besucht die Schule und wird gegen ihren Willen verheiratet, nachdem ihre Eltern bei einem Bombenangriff ums Leben kommen. Sie bringt zwei Kinder auf die Welt. Anfang Konkurrentinnen entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden eine tiefe Freundschaft.
Obwohl der Schluss etwas kitschig ausfällt, fesselt die Geschichte von der ersten Seite an und ich habe es fast in einem Zug durchgelesen!
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