A Thousand Splendid Suns

By:

Khaled Hosseini

Material type:

Computer filePublication details: Bloomsbury Publishing 2008-09-18Description: 419p. 19.80 cm x 12.90 cm x 2.60 cmISBN:

074758589X
9780747585893

Subject(s):

Fiction / General

DDC classification:

23 823

Online resources:

Summary: 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 a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Art of Living International Center Library Fiction	Fiction	823 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	A13090019

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 a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.