Chris Roland, a brilliant young photographer, is sent to take photos of this time capsule. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible. Mariam has complicated feelings about her parents: She lives with her spiteful and stubborn mother, Nana while her father Jalil, a successful businessman. Mariam, a young girl in the 1960s, grows up outside Herat, a small city in Afghanistan. Half a century later, a rusting plane is discovered, sunk with its crew, off the coast of New York – a relic from a bygone age. A Thousand Splendid Suns is set in Afghanistan from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. All it will take is a hodge-podge squadron of escort fighters, a captured US bomber and one suicidally brave pilot to fly it over the Atlantic into the beating heart of America. But the high command have one more throw of the dice to make…Īn audacious plan is hatched to save the Fatherland and beat off the approaching apocalypse. The Nazi regime is being slowly throttled by the oncoming Russian and Allied armies and Hitler rages uselessly in his Berlin bunker.

The phrase a thousand splendid suns, from the poem by Saib-e-Tabrizi, is quoted twice in the novel once as Laila’s family prepares to leave Kabul, and again when she decides to return there from Pakistan. Four hours later, that surrender was withdrawn. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 1. On 29 April 1945 the Allies secretly surrendered unconditionally to Nazi Germany.

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