![]() From her father, she has absorbed a love of art and culture-especially poetry. The second part of the story begins in the spring of 1987 and is centered on Laila, the daughter of a university teacher. Repeated miscarriages dash Rasheed’s hopes of fathering a son, and he subjects Mariam to cruel acts of physical punishment. Under pressure from his family, he marries off 15-year-old Mariam to Rasheed, a brutish cobbler 30 years her senior. Her father did not have the courage to marry her mother after “dishonouring” her. The story begins in 1974, as Mariam, an illegitimate child of a wealthy businessman from Herat, is growing up. It is generally honest enough to visit social and psychological areas away from the hackneyed propaganda of recent years to give a more informed and rounded appreciation of the life of Afghan women. Hosseini’s book takes its title from a poem written about Kabul by the seventeenth century poet Saib-e-Tabrizi. It follows two Afghan women, born two decades apart, whose lives are brought together through a series of largely tragic events. ![]() Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, like his first, The Kite Runner (made into a film, directed by Marc Forster), is set against the background of Afghanistan’s recent history. ![]() Publisher: Penguin Group (US edition), Bloomsbury (UK edition), 384 pp. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. ![]()
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