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A review by aaditya_jain482
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5.0
"I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years."
This seemingly bland looking quote from the book gets much more meaningful while reading this book, as at several instances i found myself at the verge of letting all my emotions out in the form tears, my throat had a strange sensation and left me speechless for a while.
A Thousand Splendid Suns embarkes us upon a beautiful journey of ups and down following its protagonists two girls with strikingly different backgrounds, personalities and even different generations, yet fate puts them together in a strange and unanticipated way, and what starts as a bitter relationship turns into enjoying eachother presence, love, affection and empathy for eachother in dire situations, while living in a turbulent and volatile society that only exacerbates thier situation.
The book does a great job at sheding light to the political turmoil that prevailed in afganistan from the 70s to 2000s and what is still not completely setteled today. It does a splendid job at portraying the effects of all this on common people, lifestyle drastically altering rapidly, and for some life fliped on its head in what seems like a fraction of a second, a society driven by anarchy and lately falling the hands of some that make life a living hell with thier archaic ideologies.
Despite these depressing circumstances the book is all about enjoying the little things in life, about love, hope and dreams of a better life so that you can realise them one day.
Had a lovely experience reading this book.
This seemingly bland looking quote from the book gets much more meaningful while reading this book, as at several instances i found myself at the verge of letting all my emotions out in the form tears, my throat had a strange sensation and left me speechless for a while.
A Thousand Splendid Suns embarkes us upon a beautiful journey of ups and down following its protagonists two girls with strikingly different backgrounds, personalities and even different generations, yet fate puts them together in a strange and unanticipated way, and what starts as a bitter relationship turns into enjoying eachother presence, love, affection and empathy for eachother in dire situations, while living in a turbulent and volatile society that only exacerbates thier situation.
The book does a great job at sheding light to the political turmoil that prevailed in afganistan from the 70s to 2000s and what is still not completely setteled today. It does a splendid job at portraying the effects of all this on common people, lifestyle drastically altering rapidly, and for some life fliped on its head in what seems like a fraction of a second, a society driven by anarchy and lately falling the hands of some that make life a living hell with thier archaic ideologies.
Despite these depressing circumstances the book is all about enjoying the little things in life, about love, hope and dreams of a better life so that you can realise them one day.
Had a lovely experience reading this book.