Publisher:
Penguin Canada Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (Canada)
Published:
2008
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15646361499
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Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. BOOK DESIGN BY: Amanda Dewey. COVER DESIGN AND IMAGING BY: Honi Werner. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. The Kite Runner, his first novel, is an international bestseller, published in forty countries. His second novel, the #1 national bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns, was published in 2007. In 2006 he was named a U.S. goodwill envoy to the United National Refugee Agency. REVIEWS: "In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini does something highly unusual: He surpasses the power and depth of his first novel, The Kite Runner. His long-awaited story pulls the reader completely into a world of cruelty, despair, pain, and poverty and offers hope, redemption, and love to offset the anguish. It brings to life a part of the world that the average American knows little about, and makes real for us the very human implications of our foreign policies, long after Afghanistan faded from the headlines. The story is overwhelmingly powerful. The relationship between Mariam and Laila is complex and real. Anyone who reads this compelling novel will not look at the headlines the same again."--The Charlotte Observer. "A 'Splendid' return. Khaled Hosseini...lovingly unveils the beauty and brutality of two women's lives in war-torn Afghanistan...uplifting, enlightening, universal. It is a celebration of endurance and survival in the face of unspeakable tragedy. This is a love song to anyone who has ever had a broken heart and to anyone who has ever felt powerless and yet still dares to dream. Hosseini has done it again."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "A brisk, heartbreaking follow-up to...The Kite Runner, Hosseini has created two enormously winning female characters in Mariam and Laila, Afghan women born into very different circumstances but who suffer the same problems. There is a miniature history lesson embedded in A Thousand Splendid Suns, as there was in The Kite Runner, but Hosseini never belabors it. Nor does the book ever feel like a conveniently framed window into a serious human-rights issue. Hosseini...marshals details well, which helps render his characters' plight--so foreign to us--in human terms. A Thousand Splendid Suns...devastates in a new way. It forces us to imagine what we would do had we been born to such grim fates."--Hartford Courant. "A Thousand Splendid Suns is an ambitious work. Once again the setting is Afghanistan, but this time [Hosseini] has taken the last thirty-three years of that country's tumultuous history of war and oppression and told it on an intimate scale, through the lives of two women."--The New York Times. "[Love] is the emotion--subterranean, powerful, beautiful, illicit, and infinitely patient--that suffuses the pages of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns...Hosseini movingly examines the connections between unlikely friends, the fissures that open up between parents and children, the intransigence of quiet hearts."--O, The Oprah Magazine. "Gut-wrenching...ambitious...at the center of the novel, a heart continues to beat, and underneath it is a growing sense of empowerment. What is impressive is the resiliency of a people who refuse to bow down to men who claim God is on their side, and their side only."--San Antonio Express-News.