A Thousand Shining Suns
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A Thousand Shining Suns
14.99 €
11.99 €
"Love is a great feeling. Deeply hidden, forbidden, secret, it will still wait for its time. This is the subject of Khaled Hosseini's new novel, which became a major world bestseller in 2007. This book is also about friendship between people who seemingly can only be enemies, about the hidden contradictions between parents and children, about the resilience of meek hearts. At the center of the novel are two women who find themselves victims of the upheavals that have destroyed peaceful Afghanistan. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, who learned from childhood what misfortune is and felt her own doom from an early age. Leyla, on the contrary, is the favorite daughter in a friendly family, dreaming of an interesting and beautiful life. Between them there is nothing in common, they live in different worlds, which would not be destined to cross, if not for the firestorm of war. From now on Leila and Mariam are bound by the closest ties, and they themselves do not know who they are - enemies, friends or sisters. But alone they can not survive in a maddened world, not to withstand the medieval despotism and cruelty that flooded the streets and houses of the once cozy city. Together they will go through suffering, together they will catch the unintentional particles of joy, together they will dream of happiness, to which one day they will try to break through. "A Thousand Shining Suns" is a powerful, dramatic and lyrical story that makes hearts clench with pain and joy. It is a noble and generous book. Khaled Hosseini's new novel won the 2007 Readers' Choice Award in the US and UK. In 2007, the book was a #1 bestseller according to The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, and Publishers Weekly. During the year in the U.S. alone, almost 2 million copies of the novel were sold. At the time of the Russian edition, the book was published in 46 languages.
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