About This Book
Khaled Hosseini broke the world's heart with The Kite Runner, and then he did it again. A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the story of two Afghan women whose lives intersect across decades of war, oppression, and unimaginable hardship. It is a book about endurance—not the romantic kind, but the kind that is ground out of people who have no choice but to keep going. I read it thinking about all the histories I have studied—the sweep of empires and trade routes and political upheavals—and was reminded that behind every historical event are people simply trying to live, to love, to survive. This is one of the most emotionally devastating and ultimately affirming books I have ever read.