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Find Similar BooksPropelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. “Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
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Nadia Hashimi
Two Afghan women a century apart navigate the bacha posh custom and forced marriage. It has the same focus on women's limited choices in Afghanistan and the same deeply emotional, accessible storytelling.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Set during Nigeria's Biafran war, it follows sisters and lovers whose private lives are upended by history, much as Mariam and Laila's are by Afghanistan's decades of conflict.
Kristin Hannah
Two very different sisters in occupied France find their own forms of courage. Fans of Hosseini's female bond and acts of self-sacrifice will find the same heartbreak and resilience here.
Khaled Hosseini
Hosseini's first novel covers the same troubled Afghan history through a friendship between two boys, with the same themes of guilt, loyalty and redemption that made A Thousand Splendid Suns so moving.
