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Hosseini,
Khaled.
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS New York : Riverhead Books, 2007 IL AD ISBN 1594489505 |
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This novel, set in Afghanistan during three decades of Soviet occupation, civil war and Taliban rule, follows Mariam and Laila, two women 19 years apart in age, whose lives are dramatically intertwined by dire circumstances including marriage, childbirth, abuse and murder. (Florida Teen Read, 2009) |
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Family life -- Fiction.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Fiction. Afghanistan -- Fiction. |
