Last summer I read The Kite Runner by this author and loved it, so I knew I would love this one. I absolutely love this man's writing style! He manages to write novels that have so many different levels, but they don't bog you down. At first glance you may look at the book and think that it's going to take you at least a week to get through (depending on how quickly you read, etc.), but it goes so quickly.
This novel had one major difference in style from The Kite Runner that I loved though. The Kite Runner is written in one person's point of view (or maybe 3rd person omniscient... I don't remember... but it follows just one person), but A Thousand Splendid Suns is written from two different points of view. I loved his style for doing this because the story continues... he doesn't tell about the same event from the two different points-of-view. While the multiple angles of the same story may work for some people, telling a continuous story while switching between points of view helps to keep the story going.
Like The Kite Runner, this book makes you realize how good your life is. It's a heart-breaking look at how women were treated in Afganistan for many years. In some ways it reminds me of Reading Lolita in Tehran, but these women have even less options than the narrator of that book did. They are the traditional women who were married very young (14 or 15) and had very little education. They married a man many years older than them and had to deal with sharing a husband although they are 15 years apart in age and 20-40 years apart in age from their husband.
I loved this book and would whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone looking for a good read before school starts.
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