Does Miriam See Jalil Again in a Thousand Spledid Suns

Book written by Khalid Hosseini

A Thousand Excellent Suns

Showtime edition cover
Writer	Khaled Hosseini
State	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Riverhead Books (and Simon & Schuster sound CD)
Publication date	May 22, 2007
Media blazon	Impress (hardback & paperback) and audio CD
Pages	384 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN	978-ane-59448-950-one (first edition, hardcover)
OCLC	85783363
Dewey Decimal	813/.6 22
LC Class	PS3608.O832 T56 2007

A K Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini, following 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, built-in a generation afterward, lives a relatively privileged life, only her life intersects with Mariam's when a similar tragedy forces her to accept a marriage proposal from Mariam's hubby.

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

A Thousand Splendid Suns was released on May 22, 2007,^[two] and received favorable widespread critical acclamation from Kirkus Reviews,^[3] Publishers Weekly,^[4] Library Journal,^[5] and Booklist,^[6] and became a number one New York Times Best Seller for fifteen weeks following its release.^[seven] During its outset week on sale, it sold over one million copies.^[eight] Columbia Pictures purchased film rights in 2007, and a theatrical adaptation of the book premiered on February 1, 2017, at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California.^[9]

Creation [edit]

Title [edit]

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

"Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye

Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt laissez passer

1 could non count the moons that shimmer on her roofs

And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls"

Hosseini explained "I was searching for English language translations of poems near Kabul, for utilize in a scene where a character bemoans leaving his beloved city, when I plant this item poetry. I realized that I had establish not only the right line for the scene, only also an evocative title in the phrase 'a thousand splendid suns,' which appears in the adjacent-to-last stanza."^[ane]

Inspiration [edit]

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

"I had been entertaining the idea of writing a story of Afghan women for some time after I'd finished writing The Kite Runner. That first novel was a male-dominated story. All the major characters, except perhaps for Amir's married woman Soraya, were men. At that place was a whole facet of Afghan society which I hadn't touched on in The Kite Runner, an unabridged landscape that I felt was fertile with story ideas...In the spring of 2003, I went to Kabul, and I recall seeing these burqa-clad women sitting at street corners, with four, v, six children, begging for change. I remember watching them walking in pairs up the street, trailed by their children in ragged apparel, and wondering how life had brought them to that point...I spoke to many of those women in Kabul. Their life stories were truly heartbreaking...When I began writing A Thousand Excellent Suns, I plant myself thinking near those resilient women over and over. Though no 1 woman that I met in Kabul inspired either Laila or Mariam, their voices, faces, and their incredible stories of survival were always with me, and a good function of my inspiration for this novel came from their collective spirit."^[1]

Writing [edit]

"I hope the book offers emotional subtext to the image of the burqa-clad woman walking downwardly a dusty street in Kabul."

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

Hosseini disclosed that in some ways, A Thousand First-class Suns was more difficult to write than his first novel, The Kite Runner.^[one] He noted the apprehension for his second book when writing it, compared to The Kite Runner wherein "no one was waiting for it."^[1] He likewise found his second novel to be more "ambitious" than the first due to its larger cast of characters; its dual focus on Mariam and Laila; and its roofing a multi-generational-period of nearly twoscore-five-years in total.^[1] However, he found the novel easier to write in one case he had begun, noting "every bit I began to write, as the story picked up the pace and I plant myself immersed in the world of Mariam and Laila, these apprehensions vanished on their own. The developing story captured me and enabled me to tune out the background noise and become on with the concern of inhabiting the globe I was creating."^[1] The characters "took on a life of their own" at this point and "became very existent for [him]".^[12]

Similar to The Kite Runner, the manuscript had to exist extensively revised; with Hosseini ultimately rewriting the book five times before information technology was consummate.^[13] The novel'due south predictable release was offset announced in October 2006, when information technology was described every bit a story well-nigh "family, friendship, faith and the salvation to exist found in honey".^[14]

Plot [edit]

On the outskirts of Herat, Mariam lives with her embittered mother, Nana, in a secluded hut. Born as a result of an extra-marital liaison between her mother and Jalil, a wealthy local businessman, the family unit live outside of the urban center in gild to avoid confronting Jalil'southward three wives and nine legitimate children. Nana resents Jalil for his mistreatment of her and his deceptive mental attitude towards Mariam, whom he visits every Thursday. On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam asks her male parent to take her to see Pinocchio at a cinema he owns and to introduce her to her siblings. Jalil promises to do so but when he does non come to choice her up, Mariam travels to Herat herself, against the wishes of her mother. Mariam makes her way to her father's domicile, where she is not allowed in and is informed he is away on a business trip; later spending the night on the street, Mariam is able to storm the business firm'south garden and sees that Jalil is home. Upon returning to her home, Mariam finds her mother has hanged herself. Mariam temporarily stays with Jalil, but is quickly married off to Rasheed, a widowed shoemaker from Kabul thirty years her senior, and moves with him to Kabul. Rasheed is initially kind to Mariam, but after she becomes significant and miscarries multiple times, their relationship sours and he becomes increasingly abusive to her over her inability to deport him a son.

Meanwhile, Mariam's young neighbor Laila grows up close to her father, Hakim, an educated school teacher, simply worries about her mother, Fariba, who experiences poor mental health following the decease of her two sons fighting for the Mujahideen against the Soviets. Laila is close to Tariq, a local Pashtun boy with ane leg, and every bit they grow older a romance develops between them. When Afghanistan enters ceremonious war and Kabul is bombarded past rocket attacks, Tariq's family unit decide to exit the city, and Laila and Tariq take sex prior to his departure. Shortly afterwards, Laila'due south family unit make up one's mind to as well get out the city, but before they can, a rocket hits their home, killing Hakim and Fariba and injuring Laila who is then taken in past Mariam and Rasheed.

Every bit Laila recovers from her injuries, Rasheed expresses a romantic interest in her, much to Mariam's dismay. Laila is also informed that Tariq and his family unit died in a bomb blast on their way to Islamic republic of pakistan. Upon discovering she is pregnant with Tariq'southward child, Laila agrees to ally Rasheed to protect herself and her infant, whom Rasheed believes to be his. When she gives nascence to a daughter, Aziza, Rasheed rejects them due to her being a girl. Mariam, initially cold and hostile towards Laila, warms to her every bit they both suffer abuse. They become confidants and formulate a program to run away from Rasheed and go out Kabul; however, they are caught and severely punished by Rasheed.

The Taliban rise to power in Kabul and impose harsh rules on the local population, severely curtailing women's rights. Laila is forced to give birth to a son, Zalmai, via a Caesarian section without anaesthesia due to the women's infirmary existence 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 downwardly, 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 alone to endeavor to visit Aziza when Rasheed refuses to accompany her as her guardian.

Tariq appears at the family unit abode and reunites with Laila, who learns Rasheed hired a man to falsely claim that Tariq had been killed and then that she would concur to marry him. When Rasheed returns home from work, Zalmai informs Rasheed that Laila had a male visitor. Suspicious of Laila and Tariq'southward human relationship and suspecting he is Aziza's existent father, Rasheed beats Laila and attempts to strangle her; Mariam strikes Rasheed with a shovel, killing him. She tells Laila and Tariq to leave with Aziza and Zalmai, and confesses to the Taliban to killing Rasheed, for which she is publicly executed.

Laila and Tariq leave Afghanistan and move to Murree, Pakistan, where they go married. After the fall of the Taliban, they make up one's mind to return to Kabul to be present for the rebuilding of Afghan society. They stop en route 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 pocket-size 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 return to Kabul and use the coin to repair the orphanage Aziza had stayed in, and Laila works there as a teacher. She becomes pregnant with her 3rd child, whom she will proper noun Mariam if she is a girl.

Characters [edit]

• Mariam, an indigenous 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 afterward her female parent's decease. Hosseini described Mariam as "isolated in every sense of the word. She is a woman who is detached from the day-to-day norms of human existence. Really, she just wants a connection with another human beingness". Despite initially resenting Laila, she becomes a "friend and a doting culling mother" to her through the "mutual hardship" of being married to the "abusive, psychologically imposing" Rasheed.^[xv] Mariam kills Rasheed while defending Laila, for which she is publicly executed by the Taliban.
• Laila, an ethnic Tajik born in Kabul in 1978. The only surviving child of Hakim and Fariba after her older brothers dice in the Afghan-Soviet War, she is raised by educated parents who educate her, beginning at school and later at home when Kabul becomes besides 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 ii very different representations of women".^[15] Laila's life becomes tied with Mariam'south when she is forced to marry Rasheed in order to protect herself and her unborn child afterward the decease of her parents and supposed death of Tariq. This initially causes resentment from Mariam, who "[feels] her territory infringed upon".^[xv] Despite this, "Laila becomes her girl for all practical purposes" on business relationship of the struggles and abuse they both experience during their marriage. At the cease of the novel, Laila returns to Kabul becomes a schoolteacher at an orphanage.^[xvi]
• 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 upshot of Rasheed beingness drunk while caring for him. Rasheed is an aristocratic father to his 'daughter' Aziza simply is notably much more loving towards his son Zalmai. After suffering years of experiencing domestic abuse, Mariam bludgeons Rasheed to death with a shovel while he attempts to strangle Laila to death. Hosseini hoped to make a multi-layered character with Rasheed, noting "Rasheed'southward the embodiment of the patriarchal, tribal character. In writing him, I didn't want to write him as an irredeemable villain. He is a reprehensible person, but there are moments of humanity, such equally his love for his son."^[xv] Hosseini identified an run into with an Afghan human who "had a very sweet, subservient wife" and had not still informed her that he was planning to marry over again" as an inspiration for the character.^[15]
• Tariq, an ethnic Pashtun born in Kabul in 1976 who grew upward with Laila. He lost a leg to a landmine at the age of v. They evolve from friends to lovers before long before he flees Kabul with his family; after a decade of separation, during which fourth dimension he lives equally a refugee in Afghanistan and loses his parents while Laila was led to believe he had died, Tariq and Laila reunite in Kabul. Afterwards Rasheed's death they leave for Pakistan and marry, earlier returning to Kabul, expecting their tertiary child at the cease of the novel.
• Nana, an ethnic Tajik from a village outside Herat who previously worked as a servant for Jalil. Mariam is built-in as a result of an matter between the two, and Jalil's favouritism towards his wives and legitimate children leaves her bitter towards Jalil. Nana often reports having the jinn inside 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 home for the starting time time on her own to find Jalil on her fifteenth altogether, Nana hangs herself after 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 man of affairs in Herat who has three wives and nine (later ten) legitimate children in addition to Mariam. While doting on her, his ultimate reluctance to treat her similar his legitimate children leads to her breaking off their relationship. Before his decease, he expresses regret for his treatment of Mariam through a letter that would have been given to her if she had always returned to Herat by Mullah Faizullah, instead, it is given to Laila when she goes to visit Mariams home village.^[17]
• Hakim, Laila's begetter, a academy educated man from Panjshir who works first as a teacher and and then at a manufactory after the state of war. He is progressive and wishes for Laila to be educated and brand her own decisions in life. He is killed in a rocket explosion alongside his wife Fariba while preparing to abscond Kabul.^[16]
• Fariba, Laila'south mother, originally from Panjshir. She briefly meets Mariam when she offset arrives in Kabul, and is depicted as a cheerful woman. Her disposition is permanently inverse later on her two sons, Ahmad and Noor, are killed in the Afghan-Soviet War. She spends her fourth dimension mourning in bed until the Mujahideen are victorious over the Soviets. She is later killed in a rocket explosion alongside her husband Hakim as they prepare to abscond the metropolis.^[16]
• 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 order to hide Aziza's illegitimacy. Aziza'south nascency marks Laila's fall from favour with Rasheed and leads to the friendship between Mariam and Laila. During a dearth, Aziza temporary is placed into an orphanage so she tin can exist fed.^{[16] [18]}
• Zalmai, the legitimate son of Laila and Rasheed, born in 1997 in Kabul. Laila initially considers aborting him due to him being Rasheed'south 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 non respect Tariq, but past the end of the novel appears to be accepting him equally a male parent figure.

Assay [edit]

Family unit [edit]

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

"Both novels are multigenerational, then the relationship between parent and kid, with all of its manifest complexities and contradictions, is a prominent theme. I did not intend this, just I am keenly interested, it appears, in the way parents and children love, disappoint, and in the end accolade each other. In ane way, the 2 novels are corollaries: The Kite Runner was a male parent-son story, and A Thousand Splendid Suns can exist seen as a female parent-daughter story."^[1]

He considers both novels to exist "honey stories" in the sense dear "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".^[ane]

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 existence barred from agile life during the Taliban, having their movement restricted, existence banned substantially from practicing their legal, social rights, political rights".^[12] This motivated him to write a novel centered on two Afghan women.^[12]

The Washington Postal service critic Jonathan Yardley suggested that "the primal theme of A Thousand Splendid Suns is the identify of women in Afghan order", pointing to a passage in which Mariam's female parent states, "learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a adult female. E'er. You remember that, Mariam."^[18]

In the book, both Mariam and Laila are forced into accepting marriage to Rasheed, who requires them to wear a burqa long earlier it is implemented past police force under the Taliban. He afterward 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 first week post-obit its release, A Thousand First-class Suns sold over one one thousand thousand copies,^[8] condign a number-1 New York Times bestseller for xv weeks.^[7] Time magazine's Lev Grossman placed it at number 3 in the Tiptop 10 Fiction Books of 2007, and praised information technology as a "dense, rich, pressure-packed guide to enduring the unendurable."^{[20] [21]} Jonathan Yardley said in the Washington Post "Book Earth", "But in case yous're wondering whether Khaled Hosseini's A M Splendid Suns is as good as The Kite Runner, here'southward the answer: No. It's meliorate."^[18]

A G Splendid Suns received significant praise from reviewers, with Publishers Weekly calling it "a powerful, harrowing depiction of Transitional islamic state of afghanistan"^[4] and USA Today describing the prose as "achingly beautiful".^[22] Lisa See of The New York Times attributed the book'due south success to Hosseini "[understanding] the power of emotion as few other popular 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 abuse - are fabricated readable. He doesn't gloss over the horrors his characters alive through, but something nigh his direct, explanatory style and the sense that you are moving towards a redemptive catastrophe makes the whole narrative, for all its tragedies, skid down rather easily."^[24]

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

"Dear may not be the showtime thing that comes to mind when yous consider the war-ravaged landscape of Afghanistan. But that is the emotion—subterranean, powerful, cute, illicit, and infinitely patient—that suffuses the pages of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns. Equally in his acknowledged first novel, The Kite Runner, Hosseini movingly examines the connections between unlikely friends, the fissures that open up betwixt parents and children, the intransigence of quiet hearts."^[25]

The New York Times writer Michiko Kakutani wrote a more 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 accept over, mowing downwardly the reader'due south 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 twenty-four hours-to-solar day routines, he is able to give us a sense of what daily life was like in Kabul — both earlier and during the harsh reign of the Taliban."^[26] Similarly, Yvonne Zipp of The Christian Scientific discipline Monitor concluded that A 1000 Excellent Suns was ultimately "a little shaky as a piece of work of literature".^[27]

The depictions of the atomic number 82 female person characters, Mariam and Laila, were praised by several commentators. John Freeman from The Houston Relate found them "enormously winning"^[28] while Ballad Memmott from USA Today further described them as "stunningly heroic characters whose spirits somehow grasp the dimmest rays of hope".^[22] Medwick summed up the portrayals: "Mariam, branded as a harami, or bastard, and forced into an abusive marriage at the age of fifteen, and Laila, a beauty groomed for success only shrouded almost across recognition past repressive sharia law and the husband she and Mariam share. The story, epic in telescopic and spanning three decades, follows these ii indomitable women whose fortunes mirror those of their beloved and battered country—'zippo pretty to look at, but however continuing'—and who discover in each other the strength they need to survive."^[25]

Jennifer Reese from Amusement Weekly dubbed Rasheed "1 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 adult female wrote these things most her male characters, she would probably be labeled a man-hater."^[23]

On November five, 2019, the BBC News listed A Thousand First-class Suns on its listing of the 100 nearly inspiring novels.^[thirty]

Adaptations [edit]

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

The starting time theatrical adaptation of the novel premiered in San Francisco, California, on February 1, 2017. It is co-produced by the American Conservatory Theater and Theatre Calgary.^[9] The theatrical adaptation condenses the novel for length, beginning with the deaths of Hakim and Fariba and telling before sections (such every bit Mariam's childhood and Laila and Tariq's romance) through flashbacks.

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

An opera accommodation of the novel, equanimous by Sheila Silverish, has been commissioned by Seattle Opera and will premiere in February 2023.

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

• Khaled Hosseini'due south official website
• A Study Guide

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