A Thousand Splendid Suns A Thousand Splendid Suns is written by Khaled Hosseini. The novel is about two young women trying to make it through tough times in Afghanistan. The historical fiction novel describes the main character’s regretful, despairing, and sometimes hopeless life. Khaled Hosseini brutally tells the story and provides a strong and distinct descriptions of the characters and their setting. The setting is in Afghanistan from the early 1960s to the early 2000s, and A Thousand Splendid Suns was published March 22, 2007. This provides readers knowledge of what happened in Afghanistan way before their time and what was going on in the world and Khaled Hosseini did it brilliantly. The scholarly article of A Thousand Splendid Suns is written by Harvey Thompson and it states that Khaled Hosseini 's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, like his first, The Kite Runner, gives a more informed and rounded appreciation of the life of Afghan women. At first, Mariam shows only contempt towards the "Interloper," but slowly friendship develops between the two women. It lays bare the truly horrendous existence of women and girls. In beginning of the passage, Laila considers what her father says about how the,"Communists" have improved the lives of the women of Afghanistan with their insistence on education for all. Most glaring of all is Hosseini 's decision to end A Thousand Splendid Suns in April 2003-just months before large parts of Afghanistan erupted in a