A Thousand Splendid Suns

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini

Worth reading: ★★★★★★★★★☆ (9/10)

Reason: Story and history. Hope and despair. Strength of a woman and love. Awesome book one mustn't miss!

A very very sad book.

The book is separated in 4 parts.

The first two parts are sad but still alright, I can stand of. But not the part III.

I was frowning when I was reading it. My heart squeezed. :(

It is a really good book. A touching one.

I admire the writing skill of the author.

He knew which part have to be lengthen and which part have to be in short yet it could make the readers understand and connect the story well.

 The author described some parts in details for example how Rasheed beat her wives to bring out his violence personality, how difficult for Laila to give birth in a hospital that is lack of medications to show how bad the Taliban treat the women in the country.

Of course, there are some parts for example Laila had Rasheed's baby, the author just briefly touched about this point and the next thing he wrote is Laila gave birth.

This novel weaves 30 years of turbulent Afghan history through an intensely powerful story of family, friendship and ultimately, hope.

Love can move a person to at in unexpected ways and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

ATTENTION! SPOILER!

PART I is about the life of one of the main character Mariam.

Mariam is a 'harami' (illegitimate child私生女). She always wants to stay with her dad Jalil but she couldn't. She secretly went to find her dad one day in Herat city but her dad refused to open the door for her. And when she went back, she found her Nana (mom) suicide of hanging. Her dad didn't want to stay with her even her mom died to save his face since she was the harami. He asked her to marry with a man who doubled her age from Kabul city, Rasheed. She lived in happiness in the very beginning until she suffered natural abortion.

PART II is about the life of another character Laila.

She is the youngest daughter of the neighbour of Mariam, Hakim and Fariba. She was in love with Tariq and bear her child. But the war get started and Laila's parents died. Laila married to Rasheed with the lies that she actually had Tariq's baby. She gave born to a baby girl named Aziza.

PART III is about the life these two women under Rasheed's house.

Mariam was angry with Laila for stealing her husband in the beginning. But they were friends, nope, more like mother-and-daughter-relation afterwards.

They planned together to flee. Sadly they failed. They were sent back home and beaten by Rasheed, a very terrible one. *This is the part I get really nervous. Heartbreaking when knew that their fleeing plan failed.*

They suffered under Taliban. *Ridiculous rules made me laugh!*

The family became poor and they had to send away Aziza to a orphanage house.

Mariam killed Rasheed in order to save Laila.

PART IV is about Laila's life after she escaped from Kabul with Tariq who was cheated dead but actually still alive.

She visited Mariam's hometown, Herat and then back to Kabul to contribute after the war.

She read Jalil's letter to Mariam. *Shed tears reading the letter*

Happy ending after lotsa pain and tears.

*Smile a little, yet the heart is still very heavy*

Achieve my target which is reading 2-3 novels in this holidays!!

I am so blissful, so happy, so excited.

I set this target in every holidays but all to no avail since I am always a lazy girl. :(

But not this time! Yay XD

One more week of holidays, perhaps I am able to read another one good book.

What's coming next?

:)