It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini's compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope.
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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in 34 countries. In 2006 he received the Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Refugee Agency and was named a U.S. goodwill envoy to that agency. He lives in northern California.
现年四十二岁的胡赛尼,父亲为阿富汗外交官,1980年苏联入侵阿富汗,全家逃到美国寻求政治庇护。《追风筝的孩子》让原本学医的胡赛尼名利双收,接连获得多项创作/出版新人奖,2006年并获联合国难民署的人道奖,胡赛尼受任命为难民署的亲善特使。《追》书席卷全球四十三国发烧,好莱坞也正改拍电影。
15岁的私生女玛黎安,与母亲相依为命住在山区简陋的小屋,最大的心愿就是和父亲一起看电影过生日,没想到却导致母亲自杀,更让自己被迫嫁给一位40岁的鳏夫鞋商。20年后,出身中产家庭、受过良好教养的15岁少女莱拉,在战火中失去所有的亲人,为求生存,不得不也选择嫁给玛黎安...
评分《灿烂千阳》看过好久,想写点什么,却什么都写不出来。 身为一个女人,我大概算是幸运的。从小被父母当心肝宝贝的养大,受了高等教育,又顺顺利利的结了婚,在老公的呵护下过幸福平淡的生活。戏剧性的悲惨经历对我来说,只能在小说里瞧瞧。即时是这样,当我在温暖的家中凝视...
评分2001年10月7日,我高一。2001年10月7日,美国打响了21世纪第一场战争——阿富汗战争。塔利班政权土奔瓦解,作为美国对九一一事件的报复,同时也标志着反恐战争的开始。仅仅是美国国会已批准的用于反恐战争的经费便高达4370亿美元,据统计,反恐战争直接导致至少62006人死亡,45...
评分 评分人们数不清她的屋顶上有多少轮皎洁的月亮 也数不清她的墙壁之后那一千个灿烂的太阳 ——米扎尔•穆罕默德 时间苏醒了,时间发酵了,时间睥睨群雄了,时间精通起沧海桑田的游戏了,时间迟暮了,时间变个笨拙的戏法也要几百年了。四百年的光...
Mariam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.
评分超级感人
评分Thank you Mariam.
评分Mariam is an ordinary but great woman, every girl might be, but they never got an opportunity to show their stories to others. - - -to my mother
评分Mariam is an ordinary but great woman, every girl might be, but they never got an opportunity to show their stories to others. - - -to my mother
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