A Thousand Splendid Suns

Written by Khaled Hosseini, author of bestselling book "Kite Runner". Providing an imaging other side of humanism in Afghanistan. Giving the message that every human being given the gift of happiness, must give thanks to God, above all the simplicity that is received in the world. The value of life, honesty and passions (Eve) really tested, in a storm of political upheaval that hit Afghanistan. Starting from the upheaval in the Soviet Union (Russia), civil war between Shia and Sunni Mujahideen leadership until the Taliban government. About unity, brotherhood, tribe, culture and understanding of a trust, both among fellow human beings, or to the Creator.
This novel tells the story of a native woman named Mariam, who must fight for namoos (honorary), amid the crush of circumstances totally unfriendly. Mariam who was born as a harami (illegitimate child), faced with the reality must be willing to polygamy to obey the will of Rasheed, her husband. Various measures, both uphold the value of the home kitchen, to the action kofr (harassing), occurred in the lives of Afghan society in general, which is experiencing the reality of war for years. Also tell the other side of Afghanistan, where there is actually one of the relics of Buddhism, namely in the Bamiyan Valley. A towering statue of Buddha on the cliff.
Afghanistan's Islamic religious community that upholds Islamic values??. But the reality on the ground apparently not as beautiful as the glory of Islamic values??. Communities must be freed first from the local ethnic culture, the less respect equal rights (Egalite). The women generally use burqo, a large veil revealing only the views of the woman (the eye).
Laila was the second wife of Rasheed. Although their domestic life should not end up intact at the end of the story, because her husband died. Mariam is that actually got suffered at the hands of the Taliban. At the time of the Taliban really have mastered Afghanistan, even today. And writing ZENDA Baan Taliban, Taliban longevity, is a lot of slogans plastered all over Afghanistan when the Taliban victorious moment.