A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 

What's suffering, what's hell on earth, what's a death trap? This book by Khaled Hosseini illustrates each of them to the eyes of anyone who's reading it. On the cover page, it's written 'HEARTBREAKING', as reviewed by Mail on Sunday, the story definitely does break something inside of you...

I began with the book thinking it was the first book the author had penned, but realized later that it was the second one, after 'The Kite Runner'. I started reading the book, like two months back, only to feel the freaking rush of emotions in the past 2 days to dwell deeper and finish the book. The story did sound oddly normal initially, but later when I was exposed to the plots and twists in the storyline, I was awestruck, like I took my palm only to place it on my lips, just to calm myself down!

The whole plot is tied to Afghanistan during the Russian occupation in the 1960s, revolving around the lives of two women - Mariam initially, and later Laila. Expectations are on one side, but life presents you with inconceived circumstances; the lives of these two women are the absolute proofs for the same.

My blood boiled while reading about the peak domestic violence upon Mariam and Laila inflicted on them by their common husband, the oldie Rasheed. The killing of civilians, the fighting and mass murders in the name of jihad, the grief and pain of the country-people, especially the women, the mass movement of the population to the neighboring Pakistan as refugees, every detail the story is wounded with, is heart touching.

I loved Laila and Tariq's episode though, to mention specifically! What if I tell you, I read almost 220 pages in two days just to know what would happen of those two?!

There's a line in the book, that I loved the most, "And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illuson. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold." 

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 

What's suffering, what's hell on earth, what's a death trap? This book by Khaled Hosseini illustrates each of them to the eyes of anyone who's reading it. On the cover page, it's written 'HEARTBREAKING', as reviewed by Mail on Sunday, the story definitely does break something inside of you...

I began reading the book thinking it was the first book the author had penned, but realized later that it was the second one, after 'The Kite Runner'. I started reading the book, like two months back, only to feel the freaking rush of emotions in the past 2 days to dwell deeper and finish the book. The story did sound oddly normal initially, but later when I was exposed to the plots and twists in the storyline, I was awestruck, like I took my palm only to place it on my lips, just to calm myself down!

The whole plot is tied to Afghanistan during the Russian occupation in the 1960s, revolving around the lives of two women - Mariam initially, and later Laila. Expectations are on one side, but life presents you with inconceived circumstances; the lives of these two women are the absolute proofs for the same.

My blood boiled while reading about the peak domestic violence upon Mariam and Laila inflicted on them by their common husband, the oldie Rasheed. The killing of civilians, the fighting and mass murders in the name of jihad, the grief and pain of the country-people, especially the women, the mass movement of the population to the neighboring Pakistan as refugees, every detail the story is wounded with, is heart touching.

I loved Laila and Tariq's episode though, to mention specifically! What if I tell you, I read almost 220 pages in two days just to know what would happen of those two?!

There's a line in the book, that I loved the most, "And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illuson. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold." 

The work by the author is really commendable, I loved each and every sentence that he has framed, they're so perfect and fine-tuned! I would definitely recommend this book to any bookworm! 

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Read for life!