THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
Khaled Hosseini is the author of The Kite Runner, which was a
major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The Times, Daily
Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard &
Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. And the Mountains Echoed was
chosen for the Richard & Judy Summer Book Club in 2014, and readers
voted it as their favourite of all the titles. Hosseini is also a
Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled
Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides
humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. Sea Prayer,
his fourth book, was inspired by Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old
Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September
2015. Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in
northern California.
khaledhosseini.com @khaledhosseini
In case you’re wondering whether A Thousand Splendid Suns is as
good as The Kite Runner, here’s the answer: No. It’s better
*Washington Post*
A masterful narrative … He is a storyteller of dizzying power
*Evening Standard*
Hosseini has that rare thing, a Dickensian knack for
storytelling
*Daily Telegraph*
A gripping tale … It is, too a powerful portrait of female
suffering and endurance under the Taliban
*Daily Mail*
A beautifully crafted and disturbing story … As unforgettable as
The Kite Runner, this novel places us in Afghanistan with an open
heart
*Isabel Allende*
A heartfelt saga that encompasses romance and melodrama, personal
and political intrigue, the onslaught of war and dispossession
*Independent*
If he cut his teeth by writing about his countrymen, it is the
plight of Afghanistan’s women that has brought him to realise his
full powers as a novelist
*The Times*
A Thousand Splendid Suns has all the particularity of a novel and
all the force of a fable … It reads, in many ways, like an
old-fashioned romance adventure
*Mail on Sunday*
Hosseini has done it again … A Thousand Splendid Suns is a triumph.
In Khaled Hosseini, Afghanistan has at last found a voice
*Financial Times*
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