A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - Book Thoughts Vol 3

Here I am for another book thoughts. I’m thinking of naming this category “Book thoughts”, where I talk about my favourite books, sometimes not so favourites, and share my thoughts about them, maybe sometimes convince you to delve into them.

This post is about one of my favourite authors, the writer of my absolute favourite book “The Kite Runner”. A Thousand Splendid Suns is his second book after The Kite Runner, but not less astonishing. And yes, I borrowed this book from my brother and I don’t think I can part with it again. (Sorry batman)

It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Set in the unforgiving times that dwelled within Afghanistan along the history.

This book blew my mind, from the first sentence. I’m not at all surprised that it gripped me, just as I’m sure it grips all its readers. It’s not a happy, rainbow kind of book, I can tell you that. It’s heart wrenching, striking and remarkable in every single way.

Khalid Hosseini made my cry again with his characters. Yes, again (I am an emotional reader If you haven’t noticed yet). And I loved every word of it. The tragedy set in a time of chaos and war. The love that prevailed. Yes, that might sound so cliché, but I’m talking about the love that breaks the world (sorry again being cliché and not helping my case hahah) but just the normal love, not the ones you find in movies. But the love that you see in real life, you feel in real life. But again, it’s not normal love but powerful, that grips the character and can’t help but dive into their hearts and feel them.

You go on living through Mariam and Laila’s lives. Get into their remarkable character, into their powerful stories. What they’ve been through, lived through and fought through.

Khalid’s writing is striking as usual, the ease of which you dwell inside the story. How you get attached to its characters. How genuine the story gets with every single chapter. 

It’s easy yet so very hard to read, but a not to be missed one at that.

If you want to add another book to your favourites list, go on and grab it. Go back to the world inside Kabul and Herat.

Read away,

Salam