Title: A thousand splendid suns
Author: Khalid Hosseini
My Thoughts:
I completed this book with a heavy heart. It is, no doubt, a very engaging read- you will plow on and on until the very end. Although not as depressing as Hosseini’s previous book The Kite Runner, it still presses upon intense matters and presents a picture of women rights being trampled upon by the people of Afghanistan, exacerbated during the Taliban rule.
The story is about two girls in two slightly different times who connect later in life and go through stages of hatred, to indifference to love towards each other due to the mutual hardships that they have to face. Mariam and Laila’s lives go from being bearable to intolerable as time moves on and they face difficulties through the hands of their very own. The title was one thing I couldn’t comprehend- how it was related to the story.
The one thing which has lead me to dislike Hosseini is that he seems some kind of a paid USA agent. It has led me to believe that every Muslim that you see being popularized, uplifted, prioritized and praised by the USA is their agent. You can have Malala as an example. Why do I think like that, do I even have a sound basis for that, you might ask? Well, let me explain. Khalid Hosseini has been very generous in pointing out the fact that how the Taliban destroyed women rights, how they eradicated education for women, how they introduced a forceful, modified form of Islam in Afghanistan and how they even worsened the condition of hospitals and survival for women. To clarify, I would just say that the USA has set up an image of the Taliban in such a way that we come to hate them and they’re spreading this kind of hatred through books written by the Afghans who are their agents. If you do some thorough research, you’ll get to know that the true Taliban ruled Afghanistan so peacefully that the USA felt threatened by them and then they successfully eradicated the Taliban rule. So, here’s the truth, fresh out.
I think this book review turned into a political debate, but I couldn’t help it. I can NOT tolerate Muslims selling themselves out for throwing dirt on Muslim leaders and Muslim countries. So, what I mean to say is, read such kind of books carefully and try to read between the lines.
I know I’m brutally true, but desperate times require desperate measures. Happy reading 
Rating: 3/5
