A Thousand Splendid Suns

　　After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.

　　Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, 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.

　　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.

【媒體讚譽】

"Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. . . . Hosseini gives a forceful but nuanced portrait of a patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the bearing of male children being their sole path to social status His tale is a powerful, harr owing depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Hosseini's magnificent second novel is a sad and beautiful testament to both Afghani suffering and strength. Readers who lost themselves in The Kite Runner will not want to miss this unforgettable follow up." -Booklist (starred review)

"A fine risk-taking novel about two-victimized but courageous Afghan women….Another artistic triumph, and surefire bestseller, for this fearless writer." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

【作者簡介】

卡勒德．胡賽尼（Khaled Hosseini）

　　1965年生於喀布爾。父親是外交官，1980年因蘇聯入侵阿富汗，全家尋求政治庇護移民美國。胡賽尼畢業於加州大學聖地牙哥醫學系，現居美國加州執業。2006年榮獲聯合國首屆人道主義獎。The Kite Runner（《追風箏的孩子》，中譯本由木馬文化出版）是他的第一本處女作，出版後大獲好評，獲得各項新人獎，並躍居全美各大暢銷排行榜。A Thousand Splendid Suns是他的第二本著作。