A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling debut novel The Kite Runner told of the bond and betrayal that linked two young Afghani boys, and showed how their personal and political history affected their lives and the lives of their children. In his second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini shows the tenuous alliance made between two Afghan women who are both married to the same brutal older man.