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May 29, 2007 · A correction was made on. May 30, 2007. : The Books of The Times review yesterday, about “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” by Khaled Hosseini, misspelled a character’s name. She is Laila, not Lila ...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini 372 pages. $25.95. Riverhead Books. It's not that hard to understand why Khaled Hosseini's first novel, "The Kite Runner" (2003), became such a huge ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns was released on May 22, 2007, [2] and received favorable widespread critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] Library Journal, [5] and Booklist, [6] and became a number one New York Times Best Seller for fifteen weeks following its release. [7] During its first week on sale, it sold over one ...
Recommendations from our site. “This is an easy read, it’s not heavy, but the subject matter and the themes are pretty tough…It’s such a powerful book. I’ve read so many people say that they didn’t think it was as powerful a book as The Kite Runner, but it got me in an emotional way, much more so. I think that’s because it’s all ...
May 1, 2007 · Khaled Hosseini. 4.44. 1,589,783 ratings81,249 reviews. Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household.
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May 24, 2007 · The phrase "a thousand splendid suns," from the poem by Saib-e-Tabrizi, is quoted twice in the novel – once as Laila's family prepares to leave Kabul, and again when she decides to return there from Pakistan. It is also echoed in one of the final lines: "Miriam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand ...
