Love is a great feeling. Deeply hidden, forbidden, secret — it will still wait for its hour.
This is a novel by Khaled Hosseini, which became a world bestseller.
This book is also about friendship between people who, it seemed, could only be enemies; about hidden contradictions between parents and children; and about the resilience of gentle hearts.
At the center of the novel are two women who became victims of upheavals that shattered peaceful Afghanistan. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, who from childhood learned what misfortune is and felt her own doom from an early age. Leila, on the contrary, is the beloved daughter of a close-knit family, dreaming of an interesting and wonderful life. Between them there is nothing in common: they live in different worlds that were not meant to cross — if not for the fiery fury of the war. From now on, Leila and Mariam are bound by the closest ties, and they themselves don’t know who they are — enemies, friends, or sisters. But alone, they can’t survive in an insane world; they can’t withstand the medieval tyranny and cruelty that have flooded the streets and homes of a once cozy city. Together they will go through suffering; together they will catch unplanned grains of joy; together they will dream of happiness they will one day try to break into.
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” is a powerful, dramatic, and lyrical story that makes hearts ache with pain and joy. It is a noble and generous book.
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Translation, edition in Russian, design. ZAO “Izdatelskiy Dom Fantom Press”, 2015
Recording made by the production center “Vimbo”©&??
“Vimbo”, 2016
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov