A Thousands Splendid Suns is written by Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-American novelist. He was born in 1965 in Kabul Afghanistan, and is widely renowned for his novels.
The novel tells the history and culture of Afghanistan. It exhibits with vivid details that how Soviet Union intrudes in Afghanistan, and the conditions of people. After the Soviet Union invasion, the novel shows a vivid picture of Taliban, and how it starts to dominate Afghan women and men. The story is told on two women, named Mariam and Laila. They both belong from different families and childhood, but the fate brings them under the roof of one house.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is an excellent novel that explores different themes of love, sacrifice, oppression, resilience, force marriage, and domestic violence.
Moreover, Khaled Hosseini writes about the heart-wrenching ordeal of Mariam and Laila’s life. The stories of these two women will evoke a felling of sadness and despair in the reader. Husseini broadens the circle and clearly shows the desperate lives of Afghan women under Taliban regime.
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roof, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind the walls.”
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roof, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind the walls.” Hosseini portrays a world that tells the ordeal of thousands of Afghan women—which is happening now under the new regime of Taliban in Afghanistan.
No society can progress upon the ladder of success if its women are uneducated and restricted
Furthermore, the writer takes the readers attention to Afghan society, and the destruction and repercussions of Soviet invasion. The Taliban regime in the novel relegates the life of a common woman—like a rate in a watery hole. Afghan women are forced to migrate and find shelters in other parts of the world. Freedom becomes a buzz word in the society and all Laila and Mariam want just carte blanche to escape from the nightmare of subjugation.
No society can progress upon the ladder of success if its women are uneducated and restricted. A Thousand Splendid Suns is an excellent novel that explores different themes of love, sacrifice, oppression, resilience, force marriage, and domestic violence, and the way how the two women find strength in the face of adversity.
So why wait, go and read the novel as the events unfold in Afghanistan.
About the Author:
Mehboob Malik
SIT AlumniMehboob Malik hails from Panjgur, Balochistan. He is a SIT alumnus and a former member staff. He writes on social issues.