Love is a great feeling. Deeply hidden, forbidden, secret, it will still wait for its hour. This is what Khaled Hosseini's novel is about. And also about friendship between people who, it seemed, could only be enemies.
Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, who has known misfortune since childhood and felt her own doom from an early age. Leila, on the contrary, is a beloved daughter in a close-knit family, dreaming of an interesting and wonderful life. There is nothing in common between them, they live in different worlds that would not have crossed paths if not for the fiery storm of war. From now on, Leila and Mariam are connected by the closest ties, and they themselves do not know who they are - enemies, friends or sisters. But they cannot survive alone, they cannot withstand the medieval despotism and cruelty that flooded the once flourishing city.
Khaled Hosseini's novel is as unimaginably tragic and irresistibly beautiful as an Old Testament story. Readers who were captivated by his first novel, The Kite Runner, will also love A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Translation: Sokolov Sergey
Year of issue: 2024
Publisher: Phantom Press
Pages: 416
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 210x140x30 mm
ISBN: 978-5-86471-674-8