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Brief Introduction

A

Thousand

Splendid

Suns

is

a

2007

novel

byauthor.

It

is

his

second,

following

his

2003

debut,.

Mariam

is

an

illegitimate

child,

and

suffers

from

both

the

stigma

surrounding

her

birth

along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila,

born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her

youth

until

their

lives

intersect

and

she

is

also

forced

to

accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam's husband.

The author Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a

The Kite Runner

, which

he considers a

themes used in his previous work, such as the familial aspects,

but focuses primarily on female characters and their roles in

Afghan society.

The Author

＆

Background

Khaled

Hosseini(born

March

4,

1965)

is

an

Afghan-born

Americanand

.After

graduating

from

college,

he

worked

as

a

doctor

in

California,

an

occupation

that

he

likened

to

arranged

marriage

three novels, most

notably

his 2003

debut,

all

of

which

are

at

least

partially

set

in

Afghanistan

and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success

of?

The Kite Runner

he retired from medicine to write full-time.

Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father worked as a

diplomat, and when Hosseini was 11 years old, the family moved

to

France;

four

years

later,

they

applied

for

asylum

in

the

United

States,

where

he

later

became

a

citizen.

Hosseini

did

not return to Afghanistan until 2001 at the age of 36, where he

Hosseini

visited

Afghanistan

in

2003,

and

so

many

stories

about

what

happened

to

women,

the

tragedies

that

they

had

endured,

the

difficulties,

the

gender-based

violence

that

they

had

suffered,

the

discrimination,

the

being

barred

from

active

life

during

the

Taliban,

having

their

movement

restricted,

being

banned

essentially

from

practicing

their

legal,

social

rights,

political

rights

motivated

him

to

write a novel centered on two Afghan women.

Title

The title of the book comes from a line in the Josephine Davis

translation of the poem

poet:

Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye

Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs

And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls

In an interview, Khaled Hosseini explains,

English translations of poems about Kabul, for use in a scene

where a character bemoans leaving his beloved city, when I

found this particular verse. I realized that I had found not

only the right line for the scene, but also an evocative title

in the phrase 'a thousand splendid suns,' which appears in the

next-to- last stanza.

Summary

The novel centers around two women, Mariam and Laila, how their

lives become intertwined after a series of drastic events, and

their subsequent friendship and support for each other in the

backdrop of Kabul in the 20th and 21st century. It is split

into four parts that focus on individual stories: Part one is

about Mariam, part two is on Laila, part three is on the

relationship between the two women, and Laila's life with Tariq

is in part four. The last section also happens to be the only

part written in the present tense.

Mariam lives in a?on the outskirts ofwith her embittered mother.

Jalil, her father, is a wealthy businessman who owns a cinema

and lives in the town with three wives and nine children.

Mariam is his illegitimate daughter,and she is prohibited to

live with them, but Jalil visits her every Thursday. On her

fifteenth birthday, Mariam wants her father to take her to

seeat his movie theater, against the pleas of her mother. When

he does not show up, she hikes into town and goes to his house.

He refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping on the street.

In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has

committed suicide out of fear that her daughter had deserted

her. Mariam is then taken to live in her father's house. Jalil

arranges for her to be married to Rasheed, a shoemaker fromwho

is thirty- years her senior. In Kabul, Mariam becomes pregnant

seven successive times, but is never able to carry a child to

term. This is a sad, disquieting reality for both Rasheed and

Mariam. Ultimately Rasheed grows more and more despondent over

his wife's inability to have a child and particularly a son. As

their marriage wears on Rasheed gradually becomes more and more

abusive.

Part Two introduces Laila. She is a girl growing up in Kabul

who is close friends with Tariq, a boy living in her