A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

I read Hosseini's Kite Runner and was worried that it might have been a one hit wonder and that his second book wouldn't have been as good. It was. A Thousand Splendid Suns focuses on the lives of two women from very different castes and to me Hosseini can write a woman's thoughts and feelings, I was enchanted and captivated.

AZ: "Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism".