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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Synopsis "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph'A triumph' Financial Times'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday'Deeply moving' Sunday TimesMariam 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.
(Kabul, 1965) se trasladó a Estados Unidos en 1980 y reside actualmente en el norte de California. Sus novelas se han convertido en fenómenos de ventas y han aparecido en más de cincuenta países. En 2006, Hosseini fue nombrado embajador de buena voluntad del ACNUR (Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados) y en 2007 puso en marcha la Fundación Khaled Hosseini, destinada a proporcionar ayuda humanitaria al pueblo de Afganistán para aliviar su sufrimiento y contribuir a crear prósperas comunidades.