THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER<\/b>
‘A suspenseful epic’ Daily Telegraph<\/i><\/p>\n
‘A triumph’ Financial Times<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Heartbreaking’ Mail on Sunday<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Deeply moving’ Sunday Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ is a chronicle of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and the salvation to be found in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[290,2795,26830,26901,26828,2726],"class_list":["post-93968","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-general-fiction","product_tag-history","product_tag-migration-immigration-emigration","product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction","product_tag-narrative-theme-coming-of-age","product_tag-narrative-theme-sense-of-place","product_tag-political-geography","pa_book_author-hosseini-khaled","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-813-6-edition23","pa_edition-reprint","pa_imprint-bloomsbury","pa_language-english","pa_pages-11738","pa_publisher-bloomsbury-publishing","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n