Khaled Hosseini

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.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Birta Ösp

Livaa

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam."

“She is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart”

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched 

 isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”

Helen 

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

But, mostly, Mariam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

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