This book is truly phenomenal, words failed us while trying to express what we felt while reading it. It grips you by the hand from the very beginning and drags you along the perilous journey, while you topple over with grief and heartbreak.
Synopsis (spoiler free) With tears in our eyes, Khalid Hosseini drags us along the journey of a young girl, from the fields of Guldaman to the valleys of Kabul, Maryam is thrust into the realities of life. The loss of loved ones and countless miscarriages traumatise her to the extent that she is left with scathing wounds, both emotional and physical. However, when the time comes, will she be able to help Layla, an orphan girl not unlike her many years ago?
Uprooted from the comfort of her own home, where her mother loved her, and her father let her exercise her rights, fate brings Layla to Maryam's doorstep, with almost nothing else to lose and drowning in the gut-wrenching despair that the war had presented to her, when she is faced with an endless road of fear, shame and loneliness.
To cry your eyes out along this journey of love, loss, murder, betrayal, fear, pain and emotions unable to be put into words, go read A Thousand Splendid Suns by the reknowned author Khalid Hosseini.
-“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
-“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
-“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
-“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”
-“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
