'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini (Review)

Hello everyone,

 A huge welcome to my very first (argh!) Book Review. 

This review contains no spoilers (like I'd do that to you!)

I managed to find myself in such a book slum a few weeks back and I decided to reach out to the people of Twitter and ask for a book recommendation. I received a couple of replies but one recommendation that stood out to me was via @PowersMolinar  who recomended,  
'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini and I had previously seen Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and loved it, I felt I'd be onto a winner, and boy, I was not disappointed. 

About the Author: 

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1973 Hosseini's family returned to Kabul.

In 1976, when Hosseini was 11 years old, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there. They were unable to return to Afghanistan because of the Saur Revolution in which the PDPA communist party seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. 

Instead, a year after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.

'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 people to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism' - Now with a blurb like that, is there any wonder I wanted to read further?

From start to finish, this book gripped me and wouldn't let go until the very end (a tear was shed, many a tear!)

This book is everything I had wished for. It was Gripping, Emotional, Unforgettable, and educational. It contained lots of love, but lots of heartache and at times, unfathomable brutality. 

This book truly opened my eyes to the true victims of war, the locals and their families who are so very often, forgotten.

I will never forget this book and I will be talking about it for years to come. 

S x