The FiFi Report 166

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Author)
’It’s difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so. Hosseini’s compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy bring depth to this tale of two women over three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny in Afganistan. His tale is a powerful, and harrowing, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters..
$15 http://www.amazon.com/ Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (May 22, 2007)