Thousand splendid suns by khaled Hossieni

It truly is a gift to have a gift to weave tales. Khaled hosseini has that very gift that story tellers need. He really has splendid gift to weave a tale with few characters. He makes us you smile when the character smiles and makes you feel the pain when the character is in pain. A thousand splendid suns shines like a true star. Mariam a harami brought up by her mother alone from anyone eyes, is forced to marry a bitter elderly rasheed and move to Kabul away from herat. She carries with her the guilt that she was responsible for her death. After 20years she has to share her household with 15 year old laila. How the bond forms between them is told in a heart wrenching way. They struggle through occupation of Russia then the local miltia and then the talibans. They struggle through Rasheed, starvation, fear of taliban. The author bases his story on his strong point. He has his ears to the ground. He knows the life of his characters. Being a afghani himself he is successful in basing the timeline of the story on the war torn once upon a time beautiful country. There is couple of things that caught my attention. Aziza, the daughter of laila also a harami develops a heart for mariam when she is just a month old. The second child of laila, which she had to give birth by caesarian without anesthesia. It always is woman who gets the wrong end of stick always. The endurance they have is astonishing, will we ever realize it? The author says about the bamiyan Buddha and how it was destroyed. The destruction, the unforgiving time made me think why we call ourselves human and why we ability to think.