A Thousand Splendid Suns
Registered by 
meganh
of Preston, Victoria Australia on 8/29/2011
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
meganh of Preston, Victoria Australia on 8/29/2011 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Another Op Shop bargain at only 50c! I have my own copy (hard cover ordered from Amazon as soon as it was released). Here is my synopsis of the story when I first read it -
Not quite as moving as The Kite Runner, perhaps because the story was written by a man but based on the lives of women rather than men. The lives of two seemingly unrelated women started with the bastard daughter Mariam, who was expelled from society with her mother. Her life was simple and lonely until she wanted to spend more time with her father and his other children. The sudden death of her mother and her arranged marriage was quite shocking, although believable of the culture she lived in. At fifteen years, She suddenly had to move a long way from where she grew up and this is where the other female character was introduced. Laila belonged to a middle class intellectual family and was educated and nurtured by her family until the Russians were expelled from Afghanistan and the hard-liners suddenly changed all the rules for women. The two women eventually became friends in th most unlikely circumstances when the very much younger Laila was taken as the second wife of Mariam's old husband.
Not quite as moving as The Kite Runner, perhaps because the story was written by a man but based on the lives of women rather than men. The lives of two seemingly unrelated women started with the bastard daughter Mariam, who was expelled from society with her mother. Her life was simple and lonely until she wanted to spend more time with her father and his other children. The sudden death of her mother and her arranged marriage was quite shocking, although believable of the culture she lived in. At fifteen years, She suddenly had to move a long way from where she grew up and this is where the other female character was introduced. Laila belonged to a middle class intellectual family and was educated and nurtured by her family until the Russians were expelled from Afghanistan and the hard-liners suddenly changed all the rules for women. The two women eventually became friends in th most unlikely circumstances when the very much younger Laila was taken as the second wife of Mariam's old husband.
Journal Entry 2 by meganh at The Old England Hotel in Heidelberg, Victoria Australia on Friday, October 2, 2015
meganh at The Old England Hotel in Heidelberg, Victoria Australia on Friday, October 2, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (10/2/2015 UTC) at The Old England Hotel in Heidelberg, Victoria Australia
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