Who Is Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns?

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel written by the Afghan-American author, Khaled Hosseini. The novel tends to play around the morals and religious practices of Afghanistan during the 1960’s, extending to the early 2000’s. The author succeeds to send a clear picture of how women are viewed on different levels of wealth and modernity within the country of Afghanistan. One of the main characters, Mariam, is the daughter of a rich father and a servant who had worked for him. Mariam is constantly called a “harami” by her own mother, meaning “bastard child”. Her own father has also left her and her mother, to live a poor and sad life. Mariam always admired her father, as she always viewed him as her hero, despite the negative things she was told about him. Even though she was young, I truly believe that at any age, a person could understand who they should avoid, even if it was their own father. Her mother always used to tell her the truth about him, but, Mariam never listened. "Rich man telling rich lies. He never took you to any tree. And don't let him charm you. He betrayed us, your beloved father. He cast us out of his big fancy house like we were nothing to him. He did it happily" (Hosseini 5).
While reading the book, I was touched by the fact that women are treated like property by their husbands, …show more content…
Genuinely, his way of writing makes you think of the real problems happening in our world, especially with women. Clearly, Hosseini is able to express his thoughts, arguments, and ideas in an effective and clear way. His use of simple language tends to pull the reader into the world of his writing. In my opinion, A Thousand Splendid Suns is beautifully written and it definitely deserves way more attention from readers. The book also uses many literary devices that include forms of symbolism and imagery that help in the build-up of a vivid mental