Download or read book A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.