| Title | : | The Kite Runner \u0026 A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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| ISBN | : | 0747598533 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780747598534 |
| Format Type | : | Kindle , Hardcover , Paperback , Audiobook & More |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2008 |
Over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, and published in 55 different languages.
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara, member of a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When the Soviets invade and Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story 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 rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them.
Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment
The Kite Runner \u0026 A Thousand Splendid Suns Reviews
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I loved both books with all my heart! Both reads are quite psychological from the point of view of several characters within each story.
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The Kite Runner is about a powerful kinship between Amir and his friend Hassan in the once peaceful Afghanistan. Hassan is Amir’s father’s servant’s son. Whenever a bully came, Hassan stepped in and stopped it. One day a bully named Assef came and did something so bad to Hassan that he did not come out of his room for months. This caused his father to think there was something wrong with his Amir and his son’s relationship. Because of this, Hassan’s father and Hassan quit being Amir’s servants and left... This was devastating to Amir, as he never saw them again…but he did see Hassan’s son 20 years later. Sohrab was Hassan’s son and was captured by the Taliban. Now as a grown man, Amir returns to Afghanistan to get Sohrab, Hassan’s last family.
In my opinion, this book surpasses five stars. It just has so much detail, which is what I like best about this book. It describes everything in the book so well, so not one moment is boring, which is quite rare for a book. When there is something bad that happens to the character, you want to reach out and console him. In a suspenseful situation, my stomach knots. This book makes one feel as if he is in it I would recommend this book to everyone, especially those who like foreign literature.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns was such an eye opener about women and how they are treated in Afghanistan. I would encourage all women to read this for a better understanding of women in other countries. So sad how a lie and war can change lives.
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The Kite Runner's 384 pages turned quickly. It's a father-son story, as oppposed to A Thousand Splendid Suns' 384 pages which provide a voice of hope for the women of Afhganistan. Both of these protagonists suffer, suffer, suffer. A Thousand Splendid Suns provides a much darker tale.
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THE THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS! Best book ever read! :) The letter at end of the story will make one weep. "Fate"- It's a thing no one can change.Real love- It's a thing no one can take away from you.Life and fate cannot be changed. It's the way you see life to be changed. Once you realize this, all happiness and all your dreams will shower upon you vanishing the hardships. kudos to the author! Great book!
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These are both powerful reads. Both these books chronicle different characters through peaceful Afghanistan to war torn country. I have read and re-read these books few times. These reads are as heart-wrenching to read the second or the third time as they are the first time.
Khaled Hosseini is an amazing author. His writing is profound as well as simple at the same time.
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After reading this book I actually started understanding and respecting my mother , or may be my grandmother more and more! I must say that the author could see through the heart of these women very honestly! His women are so real, the society is so very much true... A very much worth read.
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3 stelle per "Il cacciatore di aquiloni".
Primo romanzo di Hosseini. Carino, storia a
tratti commovente. Mi aspettavo qualcosa
di più, ma nel complesso è stata una
piacevole lettura. =)
4 stelle per "Mille splendidi soli".
Molto più bello questo secondo lavoro
dell'autore! Storia bellissima!!! Lo consiglio
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I read these books some time ago, around the time first published and loved them. I think I'd like to read A Thousand Setting Suns again. The lives of Muslim women are so compelling, so miserably different than American women that I find I want to know more.
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ভাগ্য দেবী সহায়, না��লে কোনদিন ইংলিশ নামক ভাষাটায় নুন্যতম দক্ষতাটা হতো না হয়ত, আসলে আমি বলতে চাইছি আমি মুগ্ধতা গ্রাস করেছে; এমন সাবলীল বই বাংলায় কি অনুবাদ করা হয়নি? নাকি আমি হাতে পাইনি? সে যাই হোক! সেসব যাই হোক!
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Khaled such a beautiful description of Afg nd u can realise how tough country tht is specially for women. In splendid suns he narrates story of laliaa and maryam such a terrific style of writing
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Imperative reading
Khaled Hosseini confirms his brilliance as an author made in his best selling novel THE KITE RUNNER as one of those first novels that captured both public interest and the hearts of the many who read this story of childhood unconditional love and redemption set against three stormy decades in Afghanistan. With the arrival of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS he is firmly placed in the realm of important communicators in literature, a writer who can offer a complex history of Afghanistan and the wars that have plagued that country for decades by creating characters whose development and interweaving lives provide a profoundly moving story. It is an amazing achievement and for this reader it even surpasses the superb KITE RUNNER.
While THE KITE RUNNER is the story of two devoted childhood friends separated by the caste of society (wealth vs. servant), the setting is such that for the first time we are able to understand the changes that occurred from the 1970s when Afghanistan was under the rule of the king, through Russian occupation, through the heinous rule of the Taliban, to the US entry into the brief war following 911. But this is not primarily a history book: Housseini adroitly uses the cultural aura and the warring background to explore the relationship of the two boys - Amir and Hassan - whose lives are far more intertwined than either would have ever thought.
As kite running happy children, boys who are in the rarefied atmosphere of imagination and dreams and camaraderie, an incident occurs that causes an abrupt schism and leads the cowardly Amir into a distancing from the needy Hassan, an act which eventually separates them as Amir and his wealthy father Baba move to the USA to escape the evils of the Taliban. The guilt that controls Amir's life ultimately drives him back to Afghanistan where he is able to find redemption for his past deeds in a most miraculous way. In the author's words: "Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan." "I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with the pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
In A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS Hosseini's gift for visual painting with words is comparable to the best of writers: 'She could make out the minarets in the distance, like the dusty fingers of giants...', 'It's the friction of grain against grain', 'She watched the winds stir mutiny in the dust, whipping it into violent spirals whipped through the courtyard' and ultimately the 'poem' praising Kabul that offers the book its title - 'One could not count the moons that shimmers on her roofs/ Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.' Hosseini takes us behind those walls for forty some years of Afghanistan's bloody history and while he does not spare us any of the descriptions of the terror that continues to besiege that country, he does offer us a story that speaks so tenderly about the fragile beauty of love and devotion and lasting impression people make on people. It is a microcosm of mankind, told with the ever-present history of war in the clouds that would try to hide the thousand splendid suns. These books are immensely important, poignantly pertinent to today's Middle East situation and two of the finer novels of recent years. Highly recommended. -
THE THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
BY
KHALED HOSSEINI
“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always." ~The Thousand Splendid Suns
I do cry while reading sad books and watching any emotional scene in a movie but this time I cried hard. I wonder how the authors write, do they cry?
Khaled Hosseini- Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist, physician, activist, humanitarian and UNHCR goodwill ambassador. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, a predicament that he likened to "an arranged marriage."
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Rating- 4/5
About Book- This a heart-rending story of two girls Mariam and Laila who happens to be wife of same person who is way older than them, Rasheed. Mariam is older than Laila and they both receive great oppression from their husband Rasheed. As the story moves we would find Mariam caring Laila no less than a mother. It is a story during the Taliban rule and we get to see much cruelty.
About Characters- There are many characters here but the main stays Laila, Mariam and Rasheed. So here, there is a great building of relationship between the characters. We come across many more characters that we can't help but fall in love. It is hard to talk about them without spoiling, so better read it. I can assure you will like it.
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Preferable Age- To get the book perfectly I feel it should be read at the age of 15 years but mature 13s and 14s can go for it too. I feel it is better to not be exposed to this much cruelty in 13s. It did hurt me, I read it when I was 13.
My Review- The book has too much cruelty and I believe this harmed me a little. The language is pretty easy and if you are a beginner looking for good books this would be a good one to start with. Moreover, I rated it 4/5 stars because I did not quite enjoy the political parts in the book. Otherwise, it terms of relationship and the story itself I really liked it. I feel it portray a part of the real cruelty of this world.
*Spoilery Talks*
Okay I made this section only to talk about Tariq here. He is my present fictional crush and might be forever. I read many books after it but I just can't stop thinking about him. The ending was nice I must say. I liked Laila and Tariq's love story no less than their names. Might sound stupid but some might relate. And then I liked Mariam's mother, she said pretty realistic words and her death gave me shivers. I still discuss that sometimes.
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A very heart touching story about atonement of past sin, Afganistan history, and how ethenic clashing can damage whole generations.I have read a previous book by the author which was "A Thousand Splendid Suns". This book has a similar tone to it. This book follows the relationship between a father-son and a Hazra childhood best friend of the son. This story evolves in Afganistan where Afghanistan was divided into different ethnic groups like Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks. The fall of the Afgan royal family and then the oppression of the Taleban regime were reflected in the story and how the Afghani peoples had to take refuge in Pakistan, USA, and other countries. The story also shows how that time Afan had many children but had very little childhood. The sheer animosity of the Taleban's toward the country people which had a server impact on the children that time was also expressed. The ending was pleasing to see how the son, Amir finally could redeem himself by at least saving his best friend's son.
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"توی کولاک گم شدم! باد زوزه می کشد پوره های سرد برف را توی چشم هایم می پاشد. در میان سرما و بوران پاهایم به سختی جلو می رود. سعی می کنم با فریاد زدن به دنبال کمک باشم اما باد فریادهای مرا قورت می دهد و صدایم به کسی نمی رسد. احساس می کنم بین سفیدی برف گم شده ام و دیگر راه نجاتی ندارم این حس با صدای نعره باد در گوشم به کابوسی که به زودی اتفاق می افتد تبدیل می شود. باد حتی رد پاهایم را پاک می کند و حالا مانند شبحی شده ام که هیچ ردپایی از خود جای نگذاشته است. دوباره فریاد می زنم محکم تر از دفعه قبل اما این بار امید هم مانند ردپایم پاک می شود. یکدفعه صدای ضعیفی به گوشم آشنا می آید. دستم را سپر چشم هایم می کنم و به هر دردسری شده سعی می کنم بنشینم، نگاه می کنم کم کم رنگ ها برایم مشخص می شود و دستی به رویم دراز می شود کف آن دست بریدگی های عمیقی دارد و خون از رگ هایش به روی برف ها سرازیر می شود. آن دست را محکم می گیرم و بلند می شوم. ناگهان دیگر برفی در کار نیست و من در در یک سرزمین سبز رنگ ایستاده ام در سرزمینی که از برف و سرما خبری نیست! آسمان پر است از بادبادک های رنگی که در روشنایی آفتاب می درخشند."
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Wow. Such an emotional, heartbreaking read. This book really made me grateful for everything and everyone I have in my life. I was gobsmacked by the situations the characters faced in this novel during the war in Afghanistan. Even though it was heartbreaking it was such a gripping book to read. Thank you Khaled Hosseini.
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One of the best books I have read.
