![]() Not soon into the story, Mariam discovers the emptiness in her father's love and after her mother's suicide, is forced to marry a man more than 20 years her senior, her being only 15. Hosseini introduces a naïve child whom you immediately pity, and also feel a foreboding clutch the pages. Branded a harami, an illegitimate child, Mariam faces many prejudices and blame not only from the family of her father, but also from her own mother. The novel is split in a dual narrative, the first being Mariam when she is nine, living on the outskirts of Herat with her bitter mother, anxiously in wait for the once-a-week visits from her wealthy father. A Thousand Splendid Suns covers much more than the aforementioned. And so shall you but not for the reasons you would expect. ![]()
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