A Thousand Splendid Suns

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought together by war, loss, and fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes them allies as well as sisters, and which will ultimately alter the course of not just their own lives but of the next generation. Set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliban reconstruction—the novel is a haunting, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

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