Thousand Splendid Suns Book review

Thousand Splendid Suns is second Novel for Khaled Hosseini after
Kite Runner.“The Kite Runner” focused on fathers and sons, and
friendships between men, his latest novel, “A Thousand Splendid
Suns,” focuses on mothers and daughters, and friendships
between women.Like Kite Runner this novel also deals with diff
generations of Afghanistan right from its once-rich past which starts
disintegrating rapidly as the rule of power moves from the Soviets
to the Mujahideen, the Taliban and finally the US-backed government
with Hamid Karzai.

Thousand Splendid suns is the story of two strong women, Mariam
and Laila,born about nineteen years apart, and the strange love
they come to share after being thrown together under complicated circumstances.Mariam,uneducated illegitimate girl coming from a
rural Herat and Laila city born educated girl from Kabul both
meet each other and their stories converge when they married
Rasheed at their respective teenage.the transition in the
relationship between Mariam and Laila was pictured superbly.Its
about love, hope, the unexpected inner strength and bonding
between two women who, though not related byblood, are intimately
related by circumstances.

I loved these lines in the book

“Like a compass needle that always points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. You remember that Mariam jo.”
(This would be said by Nana Mariam's mother to her)

"she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last."
This is about Mariam before she is beaten to death

On the whole i felt it is an Ok sort of book,Can read it once.This
story is not written with such deliberate detail as The Kite Runner.
I would recommend the book to anyone who wants to read a
touching novel and is willing to be moved to cry :).