A Thousand Splendid Suns
By: Khalid Housalini
Review
This book is very sad at first. It really makes you think of your ow life and how lucky we are. I loved how it went from sad, to exciting, back to sad and then had an amazing ending.
Favorite Passage
Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll's head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that, in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation.
The little girl looks up. Puts the doll down. Smiles.
The little girl looks up. Puts the doll down. Smiles.
Character Poem
Mariam
Smart, Independent, Caring
She is the image of a strong women
Marrying, Bullying, Helping
She marries Rasheed, Rasheed bullies her, and she helps Laila kill Rasheed
This person is very strong and confident
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan where the book takes place. He moved to the United states in 1980. In 2006 he was named a U.S. envoy to UNHCR, The United Nations Refugee Agency. Khaled now lives in northern California.