
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by
Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his
bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. The book, which spans a period of over
40 years, from the 1960s to 2003, focuses on the tumultuous lives and
relationship of Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women. Mariam, an illegitimate
child, suffers from the stigma surrounding her birth and the abuse she faces
throughout her marriage. Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively
privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced
to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam^s husband.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Khaled
Hosseini </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 4,
1965. He is the bestselling Afghan-born American author of The Kite Runner and
A Thousand Splendid Suns. He was declared the most famous Afghan in the world
by Time Magazine. He lives in Northern California with his wife, Roya, and their
two children.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"></b></span></p>

