A thousand splendid suns /
Hosseini, Khaled.
A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini. - London : Bloomsbury, 2013. - 419 p. : 19.5 cm.
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.
9781408844441
Families --Afghanistan--Fiction.
Arranged marriage-- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
FIC HOS
A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini. - London : Bloomsbury, 2013. - 419 p. : 19.5 cm.
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.
9781408844441
Families --Afghanistan--Fiction.
Arranged marriage-- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
FIC HOS