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Incoming Freshmen Reading
All members of the Hood College Class of 2015 will read “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. The book recounts experiences and emotions of two Afghani women, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become entangled with the recent wars in their country. Mostly bleak and heartrending, their story offers the promise of hope and happiness in a land ravaged by warfare, gender conflicts, and poverty.
About the Author
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980.He is the author of “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns”. He was named a U.S. goodwill envoy to the United National Refugee Agency in 2006. His website is: khaledhosseini.com. Both “The Kite Runner “and “A Thousand Splendid Suns” are New York Times bestsellers and have received critical acclaim.
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Kabul Today
What happened to Kabul from the end of A Thousand Splendid Suns in 2003 to today? In this short article from The Washington Post, journalist Pamela Constable returns to this city to reminisce about that magical moment described at the … Continue reading
We Can Do Something!
Reading A Thousand Splendid Suns was a revelatory experience for me. Despite America’s involvement in Afghanistan over the last ten years, I realized that my knowledge of the country’s history and culture was extremely patchy to say the least. Hadn’t … Continue reading
Literary Allusions in A Thousand Splendid Suns
Last week, while reading an old college friend’s manuscript of poems, I came across this couplet by the nineteenth-century Persian poet Ghalib which she had included as an epigraph: Only a few, survivors, bloom again in the rose, the tulip. … Continue reading
