A Thousand Splendid Suns Book Review A Thousand Splendid Suns, published by Khaled Hosseini in 2007, is a historical fiction novel that focuses on the corruption in Afghanistan in the 20th century, to the present.The main point that Hosseini really focuses on is that how women get treated and the laws that the Afghan leaders are enforcing on them. This devastating book is an example of how many Afghans were treated and how nobody could just walk away from it. This book is intense and as
A Thousand Splendid Suns is an excellent story of how Khaled Hosseini narrates his views of the past times of Afghanistan. It is a thorough outlook of how different families come together, friendship is formed and how pure love comes to the rescue. According to Silima (2013:456) the novel describes the struggle of two women, Mariam and Laila, who try to escape the oppression imposed upon them by the society and culture of Afghanistan. It is an illustration of how these women find themselves tangled
SECTION A 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Summary The novel of Thousand Splendid Suns describe of two woman that opposites of barriers. Those women known as Mariam and Laila are been of best buddies in Kabul of 20th century. Mariam is an illegitimate daughter of jalil and nana whereby, jalil describe as businessman in the city. The age of fifteen Mariam leave her house due to watch the movie of Pinocchio eventually these situation cause the mother to commit suicide. However, Mariam arise in city and gotten
Facts about the author Khaled Hossein was born in March 4, 1965, in Kabul, which is the capital of Afghanistan. He is best known as Afghan-American novelist. He began his career with the “The Kite Runner” in 2002. Upon release, it received critical acclaim chiefly for its engaging story of immigration, a father-son relationship and friendship. The book received highly positive reviews from critics and readers. The book became a worldwide success, more than 10 million copies were sold in the United
superiority exists in many societies. Women who are opposed to such ideology are, in some cases, perceived as rebellious when words such as feminism has come to acknowledgement for over a century. Through the struggles that the characters of A Thousand Splendid Suns faced in the patriarchal Afghani culture, Khaled Hosseini delivers his feminist ideas. For her whole life, Nana endured the troubles given by men, and she is one of the “fallen female warrior” of the novel because she fought against the oppression