A review by nimoarte
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

5.0

Mariam deserved so much more. She deserved everything life had to offer. She lived for everyone else around her. How disappointing men are, the scum of the earth. If her father hadn’t failed her, her life would’ve been one filled with laughter and joy instead of pain and sorrow. Nothing can justify what she went through nor the the silent battles she fought alone. I envy her strength and courage, her will and her patience. She never got to be a kid before she became a wife. She never got to experience life and the one thing that stopped her from happiness, that stopped her from fulfilling her desires was the greediness of men. If there is one thing this book made more clear is the fact that a man will always put himself or an another man before any woman in his life. Every scarifies he makes will always benefit him first. I will always feel angry for how Mariams life turned out and I will always feel a bitterness for the “what ifs”.
I mourn her life and the women that lost everything in a war that in the end never was for them.

”Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

“Tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart. Will you do that for me?”

4.5