Hello friends, It's been a long time. Now i am back with a bag full of new things. I love reading and you can find so many books in my room. Mostly i am into fiction , mythological and spiritual books. I always keep on looking for good books. Usually i buy books from online and from chandigarh. I am into reading from my childhood. I used to follow my Mother. She was a very spiritual and religious person. She inspired me to read good things. She subscribed to so many spiritual books and was always receiving a lot of books. Now you can guess from where i got my reading habit. I think when you enter into a good book you can easily escape from the other worries.Now coming back to the topic , I will share my random thoughts and story of this novel .
My latest new found love is A Thousand Splendid Suns . Yes that's me in that picture :) . I remember i clicked this picture after reading few pages of this lovely novel. The reason of clicking this picture is to capture the perfect moment .As you can see that sun above my head ..yup that is morning sun.I just wanted to capture it along with this book .So i did it.
This beautiful novel is written by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini. His other famous novel is The Kite Runner. A Thousand Splendid Suns title is taken from well known poem 'Kabul' written by Saib-e-Tabrizi (persian poet) . This poem is very famous in Afghanistan. The poem reads "One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls." Now here Thousand splendid suns refers to the women of Kabul (Afghan society) . Moon represents male head of a family. So like moon they shimmers on its roof and women hide themselves from the outer world. Their beauty , charm and power is compared to a splendid suns. So the theme of this novel deals with female sufferings under Taliban.
It is divided into Four parts. There are total 51 chapters of this novel. This novel is set in Afghanistan form 1960s to early 2000s. It is a story of two females Mariam and laila , who come together by war and fate. They have different feelings about their families and love.
Mariam lives with her mother( Nana) on the outskirts of Herat. Her father lives in city along with his other three wives. Mariam is his illegitimate child. She wants to live with his father Jalil but he never welcomes her thoughts. He visits them once in a week. One fine day she goes to city to find her father's house where she she is not welcomed by Jalil. She sleeps in street and in morning Jalil's driver drives her home where she finds that her mother has committed suicide. After her mother's funeral Jalil takes her home. Where her stepmothers don't have any good feelings for her . They force Mariam to get married to Rasheed, a shoemaker in kabul. He is a widower and of 45 years.And Mariam is 15. Mariam accepts her fate and get married to him. After her marriage she comes to kabul with her husband. In starting Rasheed treats her in a good way but later on because of her continuous miscarriages he starts torturing her physically and mentally.
Laila , a young and chirpy girl lives in a same street where Mariam & Rasheed lives. Laila's mother babi is a sick lady. Babi has lost her two sons in Taliban war. Laila's only best friend is Tariq and they both have feelings for each other. Beacuse of war crisis Tariq and his family flees to pakistan and later on Laila and her family also decides to leave kabul. During the packing ,one missile hit their house and in that blast laila's parents die and she survives with some injuries. Mariam and Rasheed nurses her and one day she gets a news about Tariq's death. She agrees to get married to Rasheed because she knows about her pregnancy (of Tariq's child). Mariam doesn't like her in starting but later on they both become friends. Laila gives birth to a daughter, Aziza and few years later she gives birth to a son. One fine day she gets a shock to see a stranger standing at her door and that stranger is a Tariq.When Rasheed comes to know about their meeting , he brutally beats laila and try to strangle her . In order to save Laila, Mariam kills Rasheed. She takes the responsibility of this crime in order to save Tariq and laila. They both flees to pakistan along with kids and starts a new life. Few years later Laila visits Herat, Mariam's hometown and later on Laila & Tariq returns to kabul, War is over. She starts working as a teacher in an orphanage. She is pregnant again and decides to name this child after Mariam's name.
One can easily sink into this book. I simply loved those vivid descriptions and images of beautiful
I was totally amazed by this book. This book is on top right now in my favourite list. I was relating those hardships with someone my known. I have read somewhere that Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything . This books is the one who will give wings to your mind and flight to your imagination.
You can find this novel's ebook online and download it for free. You can also suggest some good books in comments. Have a good time . And keep on smiling friends.
