A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
"After I read The Kite Runner and was aware that there was 1000 Splendid Suns, I thought, "Oh, there can't be anything as good as The Kite Runner." But someone recommended that I read it because it's more about women's issues and women's struggles in Afghanistan, and that was intriguing to me. So I went ahead and got it, and I'm really happy that I did.
It's basically about two girls that end up marrying the same man, and so the two women are not friends at all. They're enemies, and it's kind of their struggle become friends; and at some point they're almost soul mates - I mean not in the romantic sense - but they're really family with one another. All this tragedy happens, and the fact that one of them can continue to love and give herself to her family and the world, that was probably one of the best parts of that story. I don't know if it's background or foreground, but Afghanistan is at war, and it's - the author really gives all of this information about what's going on.
I would recommend this to people who, like myself, aren't always up on current events and don't follow what's going on in the Middle East. I mean it is a novel, but there's a lot of factual information about what's going on with the government and their involvement in war and how that really affects the day-to-day lives of families.
I would give this five stars. I loved the entire book. There's not one thing I can say about it that I didn't like."
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