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    Summarized & Analyzed: "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
    Summarized & Analyzed: "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
    Summarized & Analyzed: "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
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    Summarized & Analyzed: "A Thousand Splendid Suns"

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    The present novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is the author’s second novel that was published in 2007. It is primarily the story of two women, Mariam and Laila. Mariam happens to be an illegitimate child. She has to suffer from the stigma that surrounded her birth. Not only this, she has to endure abuse throughout her marriage. Laila, the other major character, is born a generation later. She has a privileged youth. Eventually, when their lives intersect, Laila’s fate also changes and she is compelled to accept a marriage proposal given by Mariam’s husband, Rasheed. It is a tale of displacement, attacks, beatings, torture, social injustice, and pitiable condition of women in the contemporary Afghan society.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateNov 5, 2017
    ISBN9781370504480
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      Introduction

      About A Thousand Splendid Suns

      Plot Overview

      Major Characters

      Complete Summary

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      Introduction

      Student World is a group of college lecturers and professors. We understand how high school and college students feel when they are given to read literature, especially classics. They generally get lost in the long and complex sentences, a parade of characters, and shifting narratives, thus making it difficult for them to make head from tail.

      Our guide books are written in very simple and clear language, without exaggerating the facts. We do not include our opinions and never become too subjective while analyzing the works of literature.

      We try to make our books as easy as possible for students to read them and learn from them so that when they read the original texts of the classics or other works of literature, they are prepared and they know what the work is about.

      In this book we have included introduction to the book, plot overview, about major characters, complete summary, and critical analysis.

      Although we know that some students do not want to read the original text because they prepare only to pass their exams or tests, yet we insist that they read the original text of A Thousand Splendid Suns so that they can understand the subtle aspects of the narrative which can't be presented in this treatise.

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      About A Thousand Splendid Suns

      Khaled Hosseini, the author of the A Thousand Splendid Sun shot into fame with his debut novel The Kite Runner that was published in 2003. In a few weeks’ time, The Kite Runner had become the bestseller all over world.

      The present novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is the author’s second novel that was published in 2007. It is primarily the story of two women, Mariam and Laila. Mariam happens to be an illegitimate child. She has to suffer from the stigma that surrounded her birth. Not only this, she has to endure abuse throughout her marriage. Laila, the other major character, is born a generation later. She has a privileged youth. Eventually, when their lives intersect, Laila’s fate also changes and she is compelled to accept a marriage proposal given by Mariam’s husband, Rasheed. It is a tale of displacement, attacks, beatings, torture, social injustice, and pitiable condition of women in the contemporary Afghan society.

      During an interview, the author disclosed that he regards A Thousand Splendid Suns as a ‘mother-daughter story.’ However, some of the themes that the author had used in his first novel are extensively investigated in A Thousand Splendid Suns. The main focus of the story is on the female characters and what role they play in Afghan society.

      We must know a little about the author’s background before discussing the present novel. Hosseini had left Afghanistan before the Soviet invaded Afghanistan and controlled the country. The author left the country and came to the United States with his father. The first novel has several scenes set in America, but A Thousand Splendid Suns is solely set in Afghanistan.

      The story covers the time period a little before the Soviet war until the Taliban rule. On the basis of the subject matter, the book can be divided into four parts: first focusing on Mariam’s growing up. She is an illegitimate child who is raised in poverty in a small hut outside the city of Herat. The second part tells the story of Laila. She happens to be one generation younger than Mariam. She has a highly privileged youth. She is born in Kabul and she spends her childhood with her two parents. Her father has hopes from her and he believes that Laila will contribute to Afghan society. In the third section, there is the description of how the lives of Mariam and Laila intersect. The final or fourth part of the book tells us about the separate paths that Mariam and Laila take.

      During an interview, Hosseini told Time that he guessed he had misunderstood what the role of fiction was. He added that because he had never thought it was about writing things that everybody agreed about,

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