Does Miriam See Jalil Again in a Thousand Spledid Suns

Book written by Khalid Hosseini

A Thousand First-class Suns

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Author	Khaled Hosseini
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Riverhead Books (and Simon & Schuster audio CD)
Publication date	May 22, 2007
Media blazon	Print (hardback & paperback) and audio CD
Pages	384 pp (offset edition, hardcover)
ISBN	978-i-59448-950-1 (starting time edition, hardcover)
OCLC	85783363
Dewey Decimal	813/.half dozen 22
LC Form	PS3608.O832 T56 2007

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel past Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini, post-obit the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner. Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to ally a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a relatively privileged life, just her life intersects with Mariam's when a similar tragedy forces her to accept a marriage proposal from Mariam'due south hubby.

Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-girl story" in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a "father-son story" and friendships between men.^[1] It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as familial dynamics, but instead focusing primarily on female characters and their roles in contemporary Afghan society.

A Thousand Splendid Suns was released on May 22, 2007,^[2] and received favorable widespread critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews,^[3] Publishers Weekly,^[4] Library Journal,^[five] and Booklist,^[6] and became a number ane New York Times Best Seller for fifteen weeks post-obit its release.^[7] During its first week on auction, information technology sold over ane meg copies.^[8] Columbia Pictures purchased movie rights in 2007, and a theatrical adaptation of the volume premiered on February 1, 2017, at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California.^[9]

Cosmos [edit]

Championship [edit]

The championship of the book comes from a line in Josephine Davis' translation of the poem "Kabul", past the 17th-century Iranian poet Saib Tabrizi:^[ten]

"Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the middle

Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass

Ane could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs

And the one thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls"

Hosseini explained "I was searching for English translations of poems nigh Kabul, for use in a scene where a character bemoans leaving his beloved city, when I plant this particular verse. I realized that I had constitute not simply the right line for the scene, just likewise an evocative championship in the phrase 'a thousand first-class suns,' which appears in the next-to-last stanza."^[1]

Inspiration [edit]

When asked what led him to write a novel centered on two Afghan women, Hosseini responded:

"I had been entertaining the thought of writing a story of Afghan women for some time after I'd finished writing The Kite Runner. That offset novel was a male-dominated story. All the major characters, except perhaps for Amir's wife Soraya, were men. There was a whole facet of Afghan society which I hadn't touched on in The Kite Runner, an entire landscape that I felt was fertile with story ideas...In the spring of 2003, I went to Kabul, and I remember seeing these burqa-clad women sitting at street corners, with iv, five, six children, begging for change. I remember watching them walking in pairs up the street, trailed past their children in ragged clothes, and wondering how life had brought them to that indicate...I spoke to many of those women in Kabul. Their life stories were truly heartbreaking...When I began writing A Thousand Splendid Suns, I found myself thinking about those resilient women over and over. Though no one woman that I met in Kabul inspired either Laila or Mariam, their voices, faces, and their incredible stories of survival were ever with me, and a good part of my inspiration for this novel came from their collective spirit."^[1]

Writing [edit]

"I hope the volume offers emotional subtext to the image of the burqa-clad adult female walking down a dusty street in Kabul."

—Khaled Hosseini in a 2007 interview.^[eleven]

Hosseini disclosed that in some means, A Thousand Splendid Suns was more difficult to write than his beginning novel, The Kite Runner.^[1] He noted the anticipation for his second volume when writing it, compared to The Kite Runner wherein "no one was waiting for information technology."^[one] He also plant his second novel to be more "ambitious" than the kickoff due to its larger bandage of characters; its dual focus on Mariam and Laila; and its covering a multi-generational-period of well-nigh twoscore-v-years in full.^[ane] However, he institute the novel easier to write once he had begun, noting "equally I began to write, as the story picked up the pace and I found myself immersed in the world of Mariam and Laila, these apprehensions vanished on their ain. The developing story captured me and enabled me to melody out the background noise and get on with the business concern of inhabiting the earth I was creating."^[ane] The characters "took on a life of their own" at this point and "became very existent for [him]".^[12]

Like to The Kite Runner, the manuscript had to be extensively revised; with Hosseini ultimately rewriting the book five times earlier it was complete.^[thirteen] The novel'southward anticipated release was starting time announced in October 2006, when it was described as a story virtually "family, friendship, faith and the salvation to exist found in love".^[fourteen]

Plot [edit]

On the outskirts of Herat, Mariam lives with her embittered mother, Nana, in a secluded hut. Built-in as a effect of an extra-marital liaison betwixt her female parent and Jalil, a wealthy local man of affairs, the family live outside of the city in order to avoid confronting Jalil's three wives and nine legitimate children. Nana resents Jalil for his mistreatment of her and his deceptive attitude towards Mariam, whom he visits every Thursday. On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam asks her father to take her to see Pinocchio at a movie theater he owns and to innovate her to her siblings. Jalil promises to do and then but when he does not come to pick her upwardly, Mariam travels to Herat herself, confronting the wishes of her mother. Mariam makes her mode to her father's home, where she is non immune in and is informed he is away on a concern trip; after spending the nighttime on the street, Mariam is able to tempest the house's garden and sees that Jalil is home. Upon returning to her domicile, Mariam finds her mother has hanged herself. Mariam temporarily stays with Jalil, but is quickly married off to Rasheed, a widowed shoemaker from Kabul xxx years her senior, and moves with him to Kabul. Rasheed is initially kind to Mariam, simply after she becomes pregnant and miscarries multiple times, their human relationship sours and he becomes increasingly abusive to her over her inability to acquit him a son.

Meanwhile, Mariam's young neighbor Laila grows upwardly close to her begetter, Hakim, an educated school instructor, only worries nearly her mother, Fariba, who experiences poor mental wellness following the expiry of her two sons fighting for the Mujahideen confronting the Soviets. Laila is close to Tariq, a local Pashtun male child with 1 leg, and as they grow older a romance develops betwixt them. When Transitional islamic state of afghanistan enters civil war and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks, Tariq's family decide to leave the urban center, and Laila and Tariq have sex activity prior to his departure. Presently afterwards, Laila's family unit determine to likewise leave the city, merely before they tin can, a rocket hits their home, killing Hakim and Fariba and injuring Laila who is then taken in past Mariam and Rasheed.

Equally Laila recovers from her injuries, Rasheed expresses a romantic interest in her, much to Mariam'due south dismay. Laila is also informed that Tariq and his family unit died in a bomb blast on their way to Pakistan. Upon discovering she is pregnant with Tariq'due south child, Laila agrees to ally Rasheed to protect herself and her baby, whom Rasheed believes to be his. When she gives birth to a daughter, Aziza, Rasheed rejects them due to her being a girl. Mariam, initially cold and hostile towards Laila, warms to her as they both suffer abuse. They become confidants and formulate a plan to run away from Rasheed and get out Kabul; however, they are caught and severely punished by Rasheed.

The Taliban rise to ability in Kabul and impose harsh rules on the local population, severely curtailing women's rights. Laila is forced to requite nascency to a son, Zalmai, via a Caesarian section without anaesthesia due to the women'south infirmary being stripped of its supplies. Laila and Mariam struggle with raising Zalmai, whom Rasheed dotes on and favours over Aziza, causing difficulties in managing Zalmai's behaviour. During a drought, Rasheed's workshop burns down, and he is forced to take other jobs. Due to a lack of food, Rasheed sends Aziza to an orphanage. Laila endures a number of beatings from Taliban when defenseless travelling lonely to attempt to visit Aziza when Rasheed refuses to back-trail her as her guardian.

Tariq appears at the family dwelling and reunites with Laila, who learns Rasheed hired a homo to falsely claim that Tariq had been killed so that she would agree to marry him. When Rasheed returns home from work, Zalmai informs Rasheed that Laila had a male visitor. Suspicious of Laila and Tariq's relationship and suspecting he is Aziza'southward real male parent, Rasheed beats Laila and attempts to strangle her; Mariam strikes Rasheed with a shovel, killing him. She tells Laila and Tariq to go out with Aziza and Zalmai, and confesses to the Taliban to killing Rasheed, for which she is publicly executed.

Laila and Tariq get out Afghanistan and movement to Murree, Pakistan, where they go married. After the fall of the Taliban, they determine to return to Kabul to be present for the rebuilding of Afghan society. They stop en road to Herat, where Laila visits the village where Mariam was raised. She meets with the son of a kindly mullah who taught Mariam, who gives her a box Jalil had entrusted to the family to care for and give to Mariam should she return to Herat. The box contains a videotape of Pinocchio, a small-scale sack of money, and a letter, in which Jalil expresses regrets at sending Mariam away, wishing he had fought for her and raised her as his legitimate child. The family render to Kabul and use the money to repair the orphanage Aziza had stayed in, and Laila works at that place as a teacher. She becomes pregnant with her third kid, whom she volition name Mariam if she is a girl.

Characters [edit]

• Mariam, an ethnic Tajik born in Herat in 1959. The illegitimate child of Jalil and Nana, his housekeeper, she suffered shame throughout her life due to the circumstances of her birth, and is forced to marry a much older shoemaker and move to Kabul later on her mother'south expiry. Hosseini described Mariam equally "isolated in every sense of the give-and-take. She is a woman who is discrete from the day-to-day norms of human being existence. Really, she only wants a connection with another human existence". Despite initially resenting Laila, she becomes a "friend and a adoring alternative mother" to her through the "mutual hardship" of being married to the "calumniating, psychologically imposing" Rasheed.^[xv] Mariam kills Rasheed while defending Laila, for which she is publicly executed by the Taliban.
• Laila, an indigenous Tajik built-in in Kabul in 1978. The only surviving child of Hakim and Fariba after her older brothers die in the Afghan-Soviet State of war, she is raised by educated parents who educate her, offset at schoolhouse and subsequently at habitation when Kabul becomes also dangerous. Compared to Mariam, Hosseini noted she "had a much more fulfilling relationship with her father, her [girlfriends] and her childhood friend, Tariq. She expected to finish school and is looking for personal fulfillment. These are two very unlike representations of women".^[15] Laila'due south life becomes tied with Mariam's when she is forced to marry Rasheed in gild to protect herself and her unborn child after the death of her parents and supposed decease of Tariq. This initially causes resentment from Mariam, who "[feels] her territory infringed upon".^[fifteen] Despite this, "Laila becomes her daughter for all applied purposes" on account of the struggles and abuse they both experience during their wedlock. At the end of the novel, Laila returns to Kabul becomes a schoolteacher at an orphanage.^[16]
• Rasheed, an ethnic Pashtun from Kabul who works as a shoemaker. Prior to his marriages to Mariam and Laila, he had a son who drowned; it is suggested in the novel that this happened as a result of Rasheed being drunk while caring for him. Rasheed is an aloof father to his 'girl' Aziza but is notably much more loving towards his son Zalmai. Subsequently suffering years of experiencing domestic corruption, Mariam bludgeons Rasheed to decease with a shovel while he attempts to strangle Laila to decease. Hosseini hoped to make a multi-layered character with Rasheed, noting "Rasheed's the embodiment of the patriarchal, tribal grapheme. In writing him, I didn't want to write him every bit an irredeemable villain. He is a reprehensible person, but in that location are moments of humanity, such as his beloved for his son."^[15] Hosseini identified an run across with an Afghan homo who "had a very sweet, subservient wife" and had not yet informed her that he was planning to ally again" as an inspiration for the character.^[15]
• Tariq, an ethnic Pashtun born in Kabul in 1976 who grew up with Laila. He lost a leg to a landmine at the age of 5. They evolve from friends to lovers shortly earlier he flees Kabul with his family unit; after a decade of separation, during which fourth dimension he lives as a refugee in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan and loses his parents while Laila was led to believe he had died, Tariq and Laila reunite in Kabul. After Rasheed's death they leave for Pakistan and marry, before returning to Kabul, expecting their third child at the stop of the novel.
• Nana, an indigenous Tajik from a village exterior Herat who previously worked every bit a servant for Jalil. Mariam is built-in equally a result of an thing between the two, and Jalil's favouritism towards his wives and legitimate children leaves her bitter towards Jalil. Nana ofttimes reports having the jinn within her; it is hinted in the book that she in reality experiences from mental health difficulties for which she refuses to be medicated. After Mariam leaves the family domicile for the first fourth dimension on her own to discover Jalil on her fifteenth altogether, Nana hangs herself afterward Mariam refuses to stay with her.
• Mullah Faizullah, a local Sufi imam who teaches Mariam the Qur'an and supports her and Nana. He dies of natural causes in 1989.
• Jalil, a local businessman in Herat who has three wives and nine (afterwards ten) legitimate children in add-on to Mariam. While doting on her, his ultimate reluctance to treat her like his legitimate children leads to her breaking off their human relationship. Before his death, he expresses regret for his treatment of Mariam through a alphabetic character that would have been given to her if she had e'er returned to Herat past Mullah Faizullah, instead, it is given to Laila when she goes to visit Mariams home village.^[17]
• Hakim, Laila's father, a university educated man from Panjshir who works outset as a teacher so at a factory after the war. He is progressive and wishes for Laila to be educated and make her own decisions in life. He is killed in a rocket explosion alongside his wife Fariba while preparing to flee Kabul.^[16]
• Fariba, Laila's mother, originally from Panjshir. She briefly meets Mariam when she outset arrives in Kabul, and is depicted as a cheerful woman. Her disposition is permanently changed afterward her two sons, Ahmad and Noor, are killed in the Afghan-Soviet War. She spends her time mourning in bed until the Mujahideen are victorious over the Soviets. She is after killed in a rocket explosion alongside her husband Hakim equally they gear up to flee the city.^[sixteen]
• Aziza, the illegitimate daughter of Laila and Tariq, born in 1993 in Kabul. When Laila learns of Tariq's alleged death, she marries Rasheed in society to hide Aziza's illegitimacy. Aziza'south nascency marks Laila'southward fall from favour with Rasheed and leads to the friendship between Mariam and Laila. During a famine, Aziza temporary is placed into an orphanage then she can be fed.^{[sixteen] [xviii]}
• Zalmai, the legitimate son of Laila and Rasheed, born in 1997 in Kabul. Laila initially considers aborting him due to him being Rasheed's biological child. Zalmai idolises his father despite his corruption of Laila and Mariam. Zalmai remains unaware that Mariam killed Rasheed and is led to believe he has left Kabul. Zalmai does not respect Tariq, but by the stop of the novel appears to exist accepting him equally a father figure.

Analysis [edit]

Family [edit]

When asked about common themes in The Kite Runner and A One thousand Fantabulous Suns, Hosseini replied:

"Both novels are multigenerational, and so the relationship between parent and child, with all of its manifest complexities and contradictions, is a prominent theme. I did non intend this, but I am keenly interested, information technology appears, in the way parents and children beloved, disappoint, and in the finish honor each other. In 1 way, the two novels are corollaries: The Kite Runner was a male parent-son story, and A G Splendid Suns can exist seen every bit a female parent-daughter story."^[one]

He considers both novels to be "love stories" in the sense love "draws characters out of their isolation, that gives them the strength to transcend their own limitations, to expose their vulnerabilities, and to perform devastating acts of cocky-sacrifice".^[1]

Women in Afghanistan [edit]

Hosseini visited Afghanistan in 2003, and "heard so many stories about what happened to women, the tragedies that they had endured, the difficulties, the gender-based violence that they had suffered, the bigotry, the being barred from active life during the Taliban, having their movement restricted, being banned essentially from practicing their legal, social rights, political rights".^[12] This motivated him to write a novel centered on two Afghan women.^[12]

The Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley suggested that "the cardinal theme of A Thousand Excellent Suns is the place of women in Afghan social club", pointing to a passage in which Mariam'south female parent states, "learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: similar a compass needle that points north, a man'south accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You retrieve that, Mariam."^[18]

In the book, both Mariam and Laila are forced into accepting union to Rasheed, who requires them to wear a burqa long before it is implemented past police force under the Taliban. He subsequently becomes increasingly abusive.^[17] A Riverhead Trades Weekly review states that the novel consistently shows the "patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the begetting of male children existence their sole path to social status."^[19]

Reception [edit]

In the outset week following its release, A Thousand Splendid Suns sold over 1 million copies,^[8] becoming a number-1 New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks.^[vii] Time magazine'southward Lev Grossman placed it at number three in the Peak 10 Fiction Books of 2007, and praised information technology as a "dumbo, rich, pressure-packed guide to enduring the unendurable."^{[20] [21]} Jonathan Yardley said in the Washington Post "Book World", "Just in case you're wondering whether Khaled Hosseini's A G Splendid Suns is as good as The Kite Runner, here's the answer: No. Information technology's better."^[18]

A Thousand Splendid Suns received significant praise from reviewers, with Publishers Weekly calling it "a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan"^[four] and Us Today describing the prose as "achingly cute".^[22] Lisa Run across of The New York Times attributed the book'southward success to Hosseini "[understanding] the power of emotion every bit few other pop writers practice".^[23] Natasha Walter from The Guardian wrote, "Hosseini is skilled at telling a certain kind of story, in which events that may seem unbearable - violence, misery and corruption - are made readable. He doesn't gloss over the horrors his characters alive through, but something about his direct, explanatory style and the sense that you are moving towards a redemptive ending makes the whole narrative, for all its tragedies, slip down rather easily."^[24]

Cathleen Medwick gave the novel a highly positive review in O, the Oprah Magazine:

"Honey may non be the first thing that comes to mind when you consider the war-ravaged landscape of Transitional islamic state of afghanistan. But that is the emotion—subterranean, powerful, beautiful, illicit, and infinitely patient—that suffuses the pages of Khaled Hosseini's A Chiliad Splendid Suns. As in his best-selling first novel, The Kite Runner, Hosseini movingly examines the connections betwixt unlikely friends, the fissures that open betwixt parents and children, the intransigence of tranquillity hearts."^[25]

The New York Times writer Michiko Kakutani wrote a more than critical review, describing the opening as "heavy-handed" and early events in the novel as "soap-opera-ish".^[26] Despite these objections, she ended, "Gradually, however, Mr. Hosseini's instinctive storytelling skills take over, mowing down the reader's objections through sheer momentum and will. He succeeds in making the emotional reality of Mariam and Laila's lives tangible to us, and by conjuring their solar day-to-day routines, he is able to give us a sense of what daily life was like in Kabul — both before and during the harsh reign of the Taliban."^[26] Similarly, Yvonne Zipp of The Christian Science Monitor concluded that A Yard Splendid Suns was ultimately "a little shaky as a piece of work of literature".^[27]

The depictions of the lead female characters, Mariam and Laila, were praised by several commentators. John Freeman from The Houston Chronicle found them "enormously winning"^[28] while Carol Memmott from USA Today farther described them as "stunningly heroic characters whose spirits somehow grasp the dimmest rays of hope".^[22] Medwick summed upwards the portrayals: "Mariam, branded equally a harami, or bastard, and forced into an abusive wedlock at the age of fifteen, and Laila, a dazzler clean-cut for success just shrouded almost beyond recognition past repressive sharia law and the hubby she and Mariam share. The story, ballsy in telescopic and spanning three decades, follows these two indomitable women whose fortunes mirror those of their beloved and dilapidated country—'nothing pretty to expect at, only withal continuing'—and who detect in each other the strength they demand to survive."^[25]

Jennifer Reese from Entertainment Weekly dubbed Rasheed "one of the most repulsive males in recent literature".^[29] Lisa See wrote that, with the exception of Tariq, "the male person characters seem either unrelentingly evil or pathetically weak" and opined, "If a woman wrote these things about her male person characters, she would probably be labeled a man-hater."^[23]

On November v, 2019, the BBC News listed A One thousand Splendid Suns on its listing of the 100 about inspiring novels.^[thirty]

Adaptations [edit]

Columbia Pictures owns the movie rights to the novel. Steven Zaillian finished writing the first draft of the screenplay in 2009^[31] and was too slated to direct; Scott Rudin had signed on as a producer.^[32] In May 2013, studios confirmed a tentative release date of 2015, although every bit of 2022 the picture remains unproduced.^[33]

The first theatrical adaptation of the novel premiered in San Francisco, California, on Feb ane, 2017. It is co-produced by the American Conservatory Theater and Theatre Calgary.^[9] The theatrical accommodation condenses the novel for length, first with the deaths of Hakim and Fariba and telling earlier sections (such every bit Mariam's childhood and Laila and Tariq's romance) through flashbacks.

A television set express serial adaptation of the novel is in works by One Customs.^[34]

An opera adaptation of the novel, composed by Sheila Silver, has been commissioned by Seattle Opera and volition premiere in February 2023.

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External links [edit]

• Khaled Hosseini's official website
• A Report Guide

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