A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner. Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a …
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner. Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a relatively privileged life, but her life intersects with Mariam's when a similar tragedy forces her to accept a marriage proposal from Mariam's husband. Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-daughter story" in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a "father-son story" and friendships between men. It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as familial dynamics, but instead focusing primarily on female characters and their roles in contemporary Afghan society. A Thousand Splendid Suns was released on May 22, 2007, and received favorable widespread critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist, and became a number one New York Times Best Seller for fifteen weeks following its release. During its first week on sale, it sold over one million copies. Columbia Pictures purchased film rights in 2007, and a theatrical adaptation of the book premiered on February 1, 2017, at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hardcover, 630 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 2007 by Riverhead Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-8589-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 156976176
A cidade do sol
364 pages
Portuguese language
Published Jan. 30, 2007 by Nova Fronteira.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-209-2010-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 319215661
- ASIN:
- 8520920101
- Goodreads:
- 6336093
A thousand splendid suns
372 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 2007 by Bloomsbury.
- OCLC Number:
- 470555784
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hardcover, 372 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 2007 by Riverhead Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 85783363
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Paperback, 372 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 2007 by Riverhead Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 317962838
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages
English language
Published May 11, 2008 by Riverhead Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 440126446
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hardcover
English language
Published Jan. 11, 2007 by Center Point Publishing.
- OCLC Number:
- 962219796
A Thousand Splendid Suns
English language
Published July 29, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59448-307-3Copied ISBN!
A Thousand Splendid Suns
English language
Published Nov. 25, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-8589-3Copied ISBN!
Tausend Strahlende Sonnen
382 pages
German language
Published Dec. 29, 2010
- ISBN:
- 978-3-8333-0589-4Copied ISBN!
A Thousand Splendid Suns
English language
Published July 29, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-9377-5Copied ISBN!
A thousand splendid suns
English language
Published July 12, 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-8297-7Copied ISBN!
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