A book recommended to me by amazon based on my past reads. A very intriguing story set in Afganistan about the lives of two women Mariam and Laila since their childhoods.
It's about how Mariam and Laila stayed in the same neighborhood but never interacted and were one day married to the same guy, Rasheed, a shoe maker. There is hatred between Mariam and Laila initially, but as the story moves along, the hatred grows into love. They take the beatings of Rasheed together and save each other whenever they can.
The book travels through the life in Afganistan before and during Taliban. The brutality faced by the people living there especially, the women, even in the 2000s was a shock to me. There was so much I didn't know about how it was during Taliban, that I learned from this book.
The are sections in the book that are horrifying and will give you a shiver, like the one on child birth and the impositions of Taliban on the residents.
A very grippping story that captures the interest from the beginning, it's hard to put it down in the middle.
Before i finished this book, I went to the book store to pick The Kite Runner, Khaled's first novel coz i had to read his other work and am reading it currently!
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a great read and comes highly recommended!
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