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A Book Report of a Thousand Splendid Suns

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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
the themes used in 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
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

so
many
stories about 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,

was
searching
for
English 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 son. As
their
marriage
wears
on
Rasheed
gradually
becomes
more
and
more
abusive.

Part Two introduces Laila. She is a girl growing up in Kabul
who
is
close
friends
with
Tariq,
a
boy
living
in
her
neighborhood.
They
eventually
develop
a
romantic
relationship
despite being aware of the social boundaries between men and
women in Afghan society. War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul
is
bombarded
by
rocket
attacks.
Tariq's
family
decides
to
leave
the city, and the emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq
culminates with them making love. Laila's family also decides
to leave Kabul, but as they are packing a rocket destroys the