A Thousand Splendid Suns

Brutal, heartbreaking stories of people in a warred country always made my eyes tear up.

“A Thousand Splendid Suns” told us stories about 3-4 generations that started from ordinary life became a wartime life. Life itself became hard and harder to live, especially for women.

While comparing to the Kite Runner this book seems more feminine to me. the storyline may cause the readers felt uneasy reading through the domestic violence we're not used to.

So this is real-life stories that can happen to anybody living in wartime.

“Before they led her out, Mariam was given a document, told to sign beneath her statement and the mullah's sentence. As the three Taliban watched, Mariam wrote it out, her name—the meem, the reh, the yah, and the meem—remembering the last time she'd signed her name to a document, twenty-seven years before, at Jalil's table, beneath the watchful gaze of another mullah.”

Excerpt From: Khaled Hosseini. “A Thousand Splendid Suns.”

This paragraph was the one I think it showed how women in Islamic society was. She is somebody just two times in her own life the first life is when she's married the other time is when she died.