Thousand Splendids Sun
This novel is split into 4 parts, the first focuses exclusively on Mariam, the second and fourth parts focuses on Laila, and the third part switches focus between Mariam and Laila with each other chapter. This book is spanning from the 1960s to2003.
Mariam who lives in the outskirts with her mother, Jalil who is her father who is wealthy with 3 wives and nine children. Mariam is an illegitimate daughter; she cannot live with her father. Her father visits her every Thursday and usually giving her a present. On her 15th birthday, she asks him to take her to see Pinocchio, and when he doesn’t show up, she walks to town to his house ends up sleeping on the porch when he refuses to see her. The next day, she finds her mother had killed herself thinking that Mariam had betrayed her. Her father then makes an arranged marriage to a man who is 30 years than her.
This book is rather long, but in my opinion it is worth reading. Khaled Hosseini style of writing that had moved me a lot. It was strong and powerful. It is where the Taliban ruled over Afghanistan, where there were loud sounds of gunfire and bombs in Kabul, where Mariam and Rasheed (her husband) lived.
”With passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women’s endurance tested beyond their worst imagings.”
Throughout the book, Mariam was a strong inspiring character. She lived through his violence day by day. It made me sad, that Rasheed’s violence were based on Mariam’s pregnancy as she has been pregnant seven times, but never been able to carry a child to term.
When there was a bomb that landed on Mariam’s street, a girl who is 15 years old called Laila is taken I by Rasheed, she is looked after by Mariam and Rasheed. When Laila discovers she is pregnant, she agrees to marry Rasheed who is milling to have a child with her.
I found it cruel how Rasheed had gone abusive
Mariam who lives in the outskirts with her mother, Jalil who is her father who is wealthy with 3 wives and nine children. Mariam is an illegitimate daughter; she cannot live with her father. Her father visits her every Thursday and usually giving her a present. On her 15th birthday, she asks him to take her to see Pinocchio, and when he doesn’t show up, she walks to town to his house ends up sleeping on the porch when he refuses to see her. The next day, she finds her mother had killed herself thinking that Mariam had betrayed her. Her father then makes an arranged marriage to a man who is 30 years than her.
This book is rather long, but in my opinion it is worth reading. Khaled Hosseini style of writing that had moved me a lot. It was strong and powerful. It is where the Taliban ruled over Afghanistan, where there were loud sounds of gunfire and bombs in Kabul, where Mariam and Rasheed (her husband) lived.
”With passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women’s endurance tested beyond their worst imagings.”
Throughout the book, Mariam was a strong inspiring character. She lived through his violence day by day. It made me sad, that Rasheed’s violence were based on Mariam’s pregnancy as she has been pregnant seven times, but never been able to carry a child to term.
When there was a bomb that landed on Mariam’s street, a girl who is 15 years old called Laila is taken I by Rasheed, she is looked after by Mariam and Rasheed. When Laila discovers she is pregnant, she agrees to marry Rasheed who is milling to have a child with her.
I found it cruel how Rasheed had gone abusive