A Thousand Splendid Suns

THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph 'A triumph' Financial Times 'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday 'Deeply moving' Sunday Times Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

Product details

• Authors: Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini Khaled
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781526604767
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-0476-7
• No. of pages: 412
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 177 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Chronik der dunklen Wälder / Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Wolfsbruder / Wolf Brother; Bloomsbury Publishing
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Afghanistan, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, Kabul, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Migration, immigration & emigration, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / General, FICTION / Muslim, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples