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 | Titolo | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Autore | Hosseini, Khaled |
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| Categoria | Fiction | | Rilegatura | Hardcover | | Dati | 384 p. | | Anno | 2007 |
| Editore | Riverhead Books |
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Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, was nothing short of a cultural phenomenon. First published in hardcover by Riverhead Books in 2003, it was hailed by critics as “haunting” (The New York Times), “extraordinary” (People), and “powerful” (The Washington Post Book World). It became a number-one New York Times bestseller and has already spent more than 105 weeks on the New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list, with more than 4 million copies in print in this country and 8 million worldwide. An international bestseller, it has been published in thirty-four countries.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, like The Kite Runner, is set in Hosseini’s native Afghanistan and further reveals his marvelous gift for storytelling. Propelled by the same narrative instincts and emotional insights that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, it is a heart-wrenching chronicle of forty-five years of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and love.
Hosseini’s characters are born generations apart, with very different experiences of class, culture, love, and family, but as war and history weave their stories together, their fates become inextricably bound, redefining the meaning of family. Through these characters, Hosseini shows how Afghanistan’s evolving ideas about women dramatically change the lives of everyone, and confronts the country’s volatile history head-on.
Hosseini takes his title from a seventeenth-century poem by Saib-e-Tabrizi, which sings the praises of the ancient and cultured city of Kabul: “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.” The lines are cited wistfully by one of Hosseini’s characters as the bombs of the mujahideen threaten to destroy the capital. Yet hope is never completely dimmed in Hosseini’s vision, even in the face of apparently insurmountable odds. For some of his characters, a belief in life’s basic goodness comes not just from personal experience of the world, but from a strong Islamic faith. One character in particular treasures a passage from the Koran often quoted by a beloved teacher: “Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He Who has power over all things, Who created death and life that He may try you.”
The human longing evoked in Khaled Hosseini’s enormously anticipated A Thousand Splendid Suns is compelling and universal: the passionate search for love, family, home, acceptance, a healthy society, and a promising future, regardless of the obstacles. Like its predecessor, this novel transcends boundaries of all kinds as it illuminates the people and culture of a region that has been reluctantly thrust into the international spotlight. Above all, however, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a stunning literary accomplishment.
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-eight countries. In 2006 he was named a U.S. Envoy to UNHCR, The United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California.
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