Thousand splendid suns /
Hosseini, Khaled
Thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini - London Bloomsbury 2008 - 419 p.
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.
9780747585893 9781408844441
Afghanistan --Fiction.
Families
Intergenerational relations
Arranged marriage
Social conditions
Fiction HOS-K
Thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini - London Bloomsbury 2008 - 419 p.
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.
9780747585893 9781408844441
Afghanistan --Fiction.
Families
Intergenerational relations
Arranged marriage
Social conditions
Fiction HOS-K