A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini · first published 2007
100% recommend
After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very differen
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It's a toss up for me between Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Ender's Game is one of those books I never got round to reading and I thought it was incredible what they put that boy through. I got the main twist a bit earlier than I should've…
on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why” ↗…have are my e-book reader and a charger. Here's some of the best summer reading I've gone through: The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski - http://www.amazon.com/Painted-Bird-Jerzy-Kosinski/dp/0802134... A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini... Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - http://www.amazon.com/Brave-World-P-S-Aldous-Huxley/dp/00617... Burmese Days - George…
on “Ask HN: Book recommendations?” ↗* A Thousand Splendid Suns * Foundation and Empire * On Liberty * Good to Great Those books shaped how I interact with other people, which is: * I will move forward. I am not waiting for you to make a decision. If you need…
on “Ask HN: What books influenced your moral compass?” ↗Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. This was after I finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. As far as non-fiction goes I'm reading Backgammon by Paul Magriel and Beginning iPhone Development.
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