TY - DATA AU - Khaled Hosseini TI - A Thousand Splendid Suns SN - 074758589X U1 - 823 23 PY - 2008///-09-18 PB - Bloomsbury Publishing KW - Fiction / General N2 - 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 UR - http://bks8.books.google.co.in/books?id=3vo0NQbIN2YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE70aKfzMCz0VMeR0VMOTsPAuE6eRRmeq-V35SgHh3I9CRgzeepzUeC57Zs6936ZWg5x23JZjHDPNXoFDnekm3361yDhX_-zfdk4uLsrNZGxpg3p7c2Y&source=gbs_api UR - http://bks8.books.google.co.in/books?id=3vo0NQbIN2YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE70rBOjtiYcoMnAbnRfgxdisb6vLNVZFOyb7lMVVwSJtzKXTuDZP0in3IZJQKlOdnIHLlXrs3LDTbMcOLAE1Cuu6usTL6OvXT2hTyGVEphua4QeQDuI&source=gbs_api UR - http://books.google.co.in/books?id=3vo0NQbIN2YC&hl=&source=gbs_api ER -