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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Author Khaled Hosseini
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On sale May 22, 2007 | 384 Pages | 978-1-59448-950-1
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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. 

“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek


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.

© Brian Sokol
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Hosseini is also a U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. View titles by Khaled Hosseini
Educator Guide for A Thousand Splendid Suns

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources. Many guides are correlated to Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. 

“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek


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.

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© Brian Sokol
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Hosseini is also a U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. View titles by Khaled Hosseini

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Educator Guide for A Thousand Splendid Suns

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources. Many guides are correlated to Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

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Additional formats

  • A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition
    A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-59448-888-7
    $29.95 US
    Hardcover
    Riverhead Books
    Oct 29, 2009
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-101-01090-7
    $12.99 US
    Ebook
    Riverhead Books
    Nov 25, 2008
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-59448-385-1
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Riverhead Books
    Nov 25, 2008
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition
    A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-59448-888-7
    $29.95 US
    Hardcover
    Riverhead Books
    Oct 29, 2009
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-101-01090-7
    $12.99 US
    Ebook
    Riverhead Books
    Nov 25, 2008
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-59448-385-1
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Riverhead Books
    Nov 25, 2008

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  • And the Mountains Echoed
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  • The Kite Runner
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  • The Kite Runner Graphic Novel
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    Khaled Hosseini
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    $22.00 US
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  • Sea Prayer
    Sea Prayer
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    978-0-525-53909-4
    $15.00 US
    Hardcover
    Riverhead Books
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  • And the Mountains Echoed
    And the Mountains Echoed
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-59463-238-9
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Riverhead Books
    Jun 03, 2014
  • The Kite Runner
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-59463-193-1
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Riverhead Books
    Mar 05, 2013
  • The Kite Runner Graphic Novel
    The Kite Runner Graphic Novel
    Khaled Hosseini
    978-1-59448-547-3
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
    Riverhead Books
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Kabul-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is known for his evocative storytelling deeply rooted in Afghanistan’s history and culture. Like so many of us, he watched Afghanistan fall to the Taliban with profound sadness. In the wake of these events, Penguin Random House has updated the educator’s guides for Hosseini’s

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