A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini • 2007
Devastation Rating
war family loss literary fiction injustice political
Our Take
Two women in Kabul across forty years of war and misery, and the bond they form is the only warm thing in a freezing novel. Hosseini writes female endurance without making it pretty. What Mariam and Laila survive is enormous, and what it costs is everything, and the love is real anyway.
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