A review by ponderinstuff
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5.0
Wow. You have to read this book. I don't give many 5-star ratings but A Thousand Splendid Suns definitely gets that from me.
I have heard people raving about this book for a long time but I kept pushing it to the bottom of my reading list because I thought it was going to be very political; a book with an agenda.
Instead, it gave a beautiful, heart-wrenching look at the everyday lives of women who want the same things women all over the world want; love, family, and a little joy here and there in their daily lives. But the women in this story live in a country where these things are extremely hard to come by.
Afghanistan is a part of the world that was a mystery to me until I read this story. I will never listen to world news reports the same way after reading A Thousand Splendid Suns.
I have heard people raving about this book for a long time but I kept pushing it to the bottom of my reading list because I thought it was going to be very political; a book with an agenda.
Instead, it gave a beautiful, heart-wrenching look at the everyday lives of women who want the same things women all over the world want; love, family, and a little joy here and there in their daily lives. But the women in this story live in a country where these things are extremely hard to come by.
Afghanistan is a part of the world that was a mystery to me until I read this story. I will never listen to world news reports the same way after reading A Thousand Splendid Suns.