5/24/2023 0 Comments Under a thousand splendid suns![]() ![]() Her closest friend is Mullah Faizullah, who shares with her the basic lessons of spirituality. ![]() It is the word people use to describe her the word she first hears at the age of five. She is a harami, an illegitimate child, as she is introduced in the first chapter. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”Īrguably the best work of Khaled Hosseini, ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ stands out, maybe a trifle ahead of The Kite Runner because of its open embrace of women’s grievances and the effortless ease with which it translates the pain and agony into that of its readers. As a reminder of how women like us suffer, she’d said. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke silently on the people below. “She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. ![]()
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