The title ‘A Thousand Splendid suns’ is a phrase picked from one of the Afghan poet Saib-e-Tabrizi’s poems.
A Thousand Splendid Suns takes the reader through an heart-wrenching journey into the lives of two women, Mariam and Laila.
Mariam, born of illegitimate circumstances is married off to a much older man Rasheed by her father’s family. Disheartened, [...]
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Posted in Book Reviews on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Daughter Of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Posted in Book Reviews on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Isabel Allende brings forth a remarkable novel of bravery, passion and discovery with ‘Daughter of Fortune’. Set in the mid nineteenth century, this story unravels the adventurous life of a young girl named Eliza.
Being dropped off as an infant at the doorstep of the Sommers’, Eliza is raised by the well-known, aristocratic Sommers family in [...]
