Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns

Introduction

Kabul was the geographic point for women's advancement in Asian nation before the war and religious movement management. However, when the war once the religious movement came to power in 1996, they instituted a system of gender apatheid that place girls in a very state of constant confinement . Women's progress in education and employment was crushed with the tough laws obligatory by the religious movement (Taliban). "Under religious movement rule girls are stripped of their visibility, voice, and mobility" (Feminist Majority Foundation). additionally to limiting the advancement of girls, the religious movement enforced laws that any windows of a woman's house that were visible to the general public should be painted black ,

In Khalid hosseini , Asian country has finally found a voice. Khaled Hosseini’s novel weaves thirty years of turbulent afghan history through an intensely powerful story of family , friendly relationship and , ultimately, hope. it's a book homogenized with compelling narratives of Mariam and Laila with the deeply troubled history of Asian country over the past thirty years. It's the role of ladies that Hosseini has chosen to explore in his novel Thousand Splendid Suns and he will thus vivdly through the stories of Mariam and Laila, two girls separated by generations however united by an unbreakable bond of friendly relationship. These two endure not solely the brutality of their husband Rasheed, however additionally the appalling atrocities of the Taleban, nevertheless stay resilient and faithful themselves.

Hosseini’s book takes its title from a literary composition written regarding Kabul by the seventeenth century author Saib-e-Tabrizi.

"Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye

Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her

Before the event, he lives in a nice home in Kabul, Afghanistan, with Baba, his father. They have two servants, Ali and his son, Hassan, who are Hazaras, an ethnic minority. Baba’s close friend, Rahim Khan, is also around often. When Afghanistan’s king is overthrown, things begin to change. One day, Amir and Hassan are playing when they run into three boys, Assef, Wali, and Kamal. Amir and Hassan are constantly compared, and this is one of many instances in which Hassan's life is considered worse than Amir's. However, Hassan's mother does return to him later in the story while Amir's mother is forever lost to him. Amir is jealous of Baba's interest in Hassan. At this point in the story, it seems that Amir's jealousy is justified. His relationship with his father is not strong, and Amir wants his father to pay more attention to him. Amir wants that kite more than anything in the world. He has come to believe that winning the tournament will garner his father's favor in a way that he can't seem to accomplish. While he watches, Hassan is attacked and raped by the boys. Amir doesn't step in to fight for Hassan, and he will always feel ashamed of that. However, it's later revealed that Baba is Hassan's biological father. Rahim Khan realizes that Amir has never stopped feeling guilty for standing by as Hassan was attacked. He also realizes