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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Key facts
- Author
- Khaled Hosseini
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Historical Fiction / War Literature
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books (and Simon & Schuster audio CD)
- Publication date
- May 22, 2007
- Publication place
- United States
- Media type
- Print (hardback & paperback) and audio CD
- Pages
- 384 pp (first edition, hardcover)
- Isbn
- 978-1-59448-950-1 (first edition, hardcover)
- Dewey decimal
- 813/.6 22
- Library of congress classification span
- PS3608.O832 T56 2007
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Khaled Hosseini
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Narrative location
- Afghanistan
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- publication date
- 2007-05-22
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- form of creative work
- novel
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Encyclopedic overview
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner. Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a relatively privileged life, but her life intersects with Mariam's when a similar tragedy forces her to accept a marriage proposal from Mariam's husband.
Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-daughter story" in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a "father-son story". It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as familial dynamics, but instead focusing primarily on female characters and their roles in contemporary Afghan society.
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