A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking novel set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban, to post-Taliban rebuilding - and puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a story of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family, and find happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around them.

ISBN: 9781594483851