Book Review- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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" Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always." I just finished reading Khaled Hosseini's second novel, ' A Thousand Splendid Suns' published in the year 2007. After reading " The Kite Runner," author Khalid Hosseini's first international best seller -a beautiful, compelling story, I was hoping ' A Thousand Splendid Suns' would not be a let down which is mostly the case with successive novels of nouveau best-selling authors. Fortunately, ' A Thousand Splendid Suns' strengthened my faith in Khalid Hosseini as a master story-teller, an author who touched human emotions and struck a chord with them. What I was not prepared for were these cascading emotions that enveloped me in their fold- sometimes in the form of despondency, sometimes anger, sometimes empathy but mostly hope - hope that also nurtured and sustained the 2 female protaginists of the novel- Mariam and...