Khaled Hosseini. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Халед Хоссейни. Тысяча сияющих солнц

Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

Мариам и Лейла родились с разницей в одно поколение. У них совершенно разные миры, в которых они живут, разные представления о любви и семье - но судьба сводит двух женщин вместе. В опасном военном Кабуле они становятся друг другу то ли подругами, то ли сестрами, то ли матерью и дочерью… С душераздирающим напряжением Хоссейни показывает, что любовь женщины к семье может подтолкнуть ее к героическому самопожертвованию, и что в конце концов именно любовь — ключ к выживанию даже в самых тяжелых условиях.