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Brief Introduction

A
Thousand
Splendid
Suns

is
a
2007
novel
by
Afghan-American

author
Khaled
Hosseini
.
It
is
his
second,
following his
bestselling

2003 debut,
The Kite Runner
. Mariam is an
illegitimate
child,
and
suffers
from
both
the
stigma
surrounding
her
birth
along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila, born a
generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until
their
lives
intersect
and
she
is
also
forced
to
accept
a
marriage
proposal
from Rasheed, Mariam's husband.

The author Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a

The Kite Runner
, which he
considers a
his previous work, such as the familial aspects, but focuses primarily
on female characters and their roles in Afghan society.


The Author
＆
Background

Khaled
Hosseini
(
born
March
4,
1965)
is
an
Afghan-born
American
novelist

and
physician
.
After graduating from college, he
worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to
arranged
marriage
He
has
published
three
novels,
most
notably
his
2003
debut
The
Kite
Runner
,
all
of
which
are
at
least
partially
set
in
Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the
success
of
The
Kite
Runner

he
retired
from
medicine
to
write
full-time.

Hosseini
was
born
in
Kabul,
Afghanistan.
His
father
worked
as
a
diplomat,
and
when
Hosseini
was
11
years
old,
the
family
moved
to
France;
four
years
later,
they
applied
for
asylum
in
the
United
States,
where
he
later
became
a citizen. Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2001 at the age
of 36, where he

Hosseini visited Afghanistan in 2003, and
what
happened
to
women,
the
tragedies
that
they
had
endured,
the
difficulties,
the
gender-based
violence
that
they
had
suffered,
the
discrimination, the being barred from active life during the Taliban,
having
their
movement
restricted,
being
banned
essentially
from
practicing
their
legal,
social
rights,
political
rights
motivated
him to write a novel centered on two Afghan women.


Title


The
title
of
the
book
comes
from
a
line
in
the
Josephine
Davis
translation
of the poem
by the 17th- century Iranian poet
Saib Tabrizi
:


Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye

Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs

And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls

In an interview, Khaled Hosseini explains,
translations of poems about Kabul, for use in a scene where a character
bemoans leaving his beloved city, when I found this particular verse. I
realized
that
I
had
found
not
only
the
right
line
for
the
scene,
but
also
an
evocative
title
in
the
phrase
'a
thousand
splendid
suns,'
which
appears
in the next-to-last stanza.


Summary

The novel centers around two women, Mariam and Laila, how their lives
become
intertwined
after
a
series
of
drastic
events,
and
their
subsequent
friendship
and
support
for
each
other
in
the
backdrop
of
Kabul
in
the
20th
and 21st century. It is split into four parts that focus on individual
stories: Part one is about Mariam, part two is on Laila, part three is
on the relationship between the two women, and Laila's life with Tariq
is
in
part
four.
The
last
section
also
happens
to
be
the
only
part
written
in the present tense.

Mariam
lives
in
a
kolba

on
the
outskirts
of
Herat

with
her
embittered
mother.
Jalil,
her
father,
is
a
wealthy
businessman
who
owns
a
cinema
and
lives in the town with three wives and nine children. Mariam is his
illegitimate
daughter,and
she
is
prohibited
to
live
with
them,
but
Jalil
visits her every Thursday. On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam wants her
father to take her to see
Pinocchio

at his movie theater, against the
pleas of her mother. When he does not show up, she hikes into town and
goes
to
his
house.
He
refuses
to
see
her,
and
she
ends
up
sleeping
on
the
street. In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has
committed
suicide
out
of
fear
that
her
daughter
had
deserted
her.
Mariam
is then taken to live in her father's house. Jalil arranges for her to
be married to Rasheed, a shoemaker from
Kabul

who is thirty-years her
senior.
In
Kabul,
Mariam
becomes
pregnant
seven
successive
times,
but
is
never able to carry a child to term. This is a sad, disquieting reality
for both Rasheed and Mariam. Ultimately Rasheed grows more and more
despondent over his wife's inability to have a child and particularly a