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A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Name: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 9780747593775

Khaled Hosseini

26/04/2008
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de A Thousand Splendid Suns par Khaled Hosseini

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Quatrième de couverture 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. Biographie de l'auteur Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-four countries. In 2006 he was named a US goodwill envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California.