A Thousand Splendid Suns

Цена 17.13 - 33.82 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781594489501

Брэнд Penguin Books Ltd.

Автор

Издатель Riverhead Hardcover

Страниц 372

Год выпуска 2007

After More Than Two Years On The Bestseller Lists, Khaled Hosseini Returns With A Beautiful, Riveting, And Haunting Novel Of Enormous Contemporary Relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan"s last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. 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. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heartwrenching novel of an unforgiving...