Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Author: Khaled Hosseini) - Re-published from my old blog @FriendsterBlog (Sep 2007)

A Thousand Splendid Suns tells a sad story of two Afghan women, who came from two different places and cultures but eventually gathered in one house in the war-ridden Kabul. A very sad book with all the miseries happened to those two poor women, with so many mean people around them.

The author introduced history of Afghanistan: from the monarchy era to the time of Soviet invasion, then the warlords era to the time when the Taliban took control until the Post 9/11 era.

I like one quote in the novel saying something like this: An Afghan can defeat all but himself. After all the hardships in fighting the Soviet, I find it sad that the Afghans should suffer from all the fighting among themselves...

Link to Amazon.com:
A Thousand Splendid Suns