02251cam a2200277 4500 615011268 TxAuBib 070228s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007008679 9781594489501 alk. paper 1594489505 alk. paper (OCoLC)7947 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA OCO C#P VP@ YDXCP AFQ IXA BXN XY4 TBS IG# HIL EDK CPE CQU ZAD TEX KAAUA HL6 TxAuBib Hosseini, Khaled. A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini. New York : Riverhead Books, 2007. 372 p. ; 24 cm. Mariam and Laila are born a generation apart but are brought together by war and fate. Together they endure the dangers surrounding them and discover the power of both love and sacrifice. (Calmar Campus also has this title in audiobook format.) From the Publisher: After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives-the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness-are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love-a stunning accomplishment. Families Fiction. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. Intergenerational relations Fiction. Family sagas Fiction. Afghanistan Fiction. Domestic fiction.