A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition [Hardcover]

This deluxe illustrated edition ofA Thousand Splendid Sunsis filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini's compelling story to life. Since its publication in 2007,A Thousand Splendid Sunshas shipped more than three million copies. The bestselling adult novel of 2007, it spent fifteen weeks at #1 on theNew York Timesbestseller list and remained on the list for an impressive forty-nine weeks. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that madeThe Kite Runnera beloved classic,A Thousand Splendid Sunsis at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.

Now, in this lavishly designed edition of the novel, the narrative is enhanced by expressive photos that capture the people and culture of the region in vivid detail and reflect the book's powerful themes, so apt for our times: the passionate search for family, home, acceptance, a healthy society, and a promising future-regardless of the obstacles. Together withThe Kite Runner: Illustrated Edition, the illustratedA Thousand Splendid Sunscreates a beautiful matched set.“A Thousand Splendid Suns is an ambitious work. Once again the setting is Afghanistan, but this time [Hosseini] has taken the last 33 years of that country’s tumultuous history of war and oppression and told it on an intimate scale, through the lives of two women.”—The New York Times 

“Spectacular. . . . Hosseini’s writing makes our hearts ache, our stomachs clench and our emotions reel. . . . Hosseini mixes the experiences of these women with imagined scenarios to create a fascinating microcosm of Afghan family life. He shows us the interior lives of the anonymous women living beneath identity-diminishing burqas... Hosseini writes in gorgeous and stirring language of the natural bló