ISBN: 1408817985 9781408817988

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 432

In Hosseini's unforgettable debut novel, <i>The Kite Runner</i>, <br>twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting <br>tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither<br> of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an <br>event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the <br>family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must <br>return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that <br>his new world cannot grant him: redemption.<br><br><br>In his second novel, <i>A Thousand Splendid Suns, </i>Hosseini<br> begins his story with Mariam, who is only fifteen when she is sent to <br>Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows <br>between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties <br>between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a <br>desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can <br>move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the <br>most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.<br>