Book Club: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Our Gunpo book club meets every two weeks where members rotate picking books for the group to read. Anyone is free to join!

This meeting we will be discussing the book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. While the book can be read in English or Korean and members can read either, the meeting will be conducted in English. The summary of the book is below:

“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.”