A Thousand Splendid Suns

You see, not only can "the male character you fall in love with is actually the soul of a female writer" but also "the female character you fall in love with is written by the soul of a male writer". It's great that Hosseini can look at the world from the standpoint of both genders at the same time. It's another day to be moved by the world~

I always felt depressed in the early stage, but Laila's father's encouragement and fatherly love as well as the blossoming love between Laila and Tariq gave me small touches again and again in this suffering literature. The awakening and resistance of Mariam, who endured hardship all her life, and the sacrifice she made to fulfill Laila made me feel heartbroken and moved. Afghan women are really having a hard time fighting for freedom. The scary thing is that now the Taliban are back and they have once again ended women's rights. This is a highly recommended book for women. The author uses plain and delicate words to describe Mariam's life and half of Laila's life, which made me feel more compassion for the Taliban and Afghan women. I hope that Afghanistan will get rid of the control of the terrorist regime as soon as possible, and that women around the world will have equal rights as men.

Two impressive scenes: Laila's words: Cut me open and give me the child. Mariam walked to the execution ground with determined steps. (2023.9.17) Library Reading Afghan version of "Alive"

At the beginning, I didn't know why the book was called A Thousand Splendid Suns. After reading it, I realized that Mariam's brilliance was like the sun shining on Laila, allowing her to start a splendid new life. After the initial tension, the two women reconciled and silently supported her. This kind of love is touching, Mariam's life is too tragic. She has to learn to be patient after listening to her mother since she was a child. After enduring so many years, there is also the longing for family affection, a belated movie and a letter, but I think Mariam will always be pure and good, which is touching. At the same time, this book also made me understand the war-torn and internal strife in Afghanistan, which has caused so many people's families to be torn apart and leave their homes. The war continues, and it is always the people who suffer.

People can't count how many bright moons there are on her roof I can't even count the thousand splendid suns behind her walls.

Apart from the cruelty of war, the two heroines who made the most profound impressions from this book are the two heroines. Combined with the current situation of Afghan women, there is a deep sense of powerlessness. When watching domestic movies and literary works about women who were once imprisoned, I feel sad but also hopeful - one day Chinese women will stand up and no longer be imprisoned by patriarchal and feudal ideas. Regardless of whether it is complete or not, this day has indeed come. But for Afghan women, today, when women all over the world are advocating for equal rights and pursuing freedom, they still have not waited for their own freedom and have not gotten rid of their shackles...

The scars of grief are like the coffee of old, and the new life is like a thousand suns.

This book opened a window for me to understand a country with a different culture, and the tragic lives of two smart and kind-hearted women because of culture, family, and war. I have a profound understanding of the significance of national peace and security to a civilian.

Dear Laila, today in 2024, women in Afghanistan have completely lost their human rights. How about you? How are you doing?

Mariam, please don't suffer anymore in the next life [cry][cry][cry][cry][cry][cry]

Tears welled up in my face, unspeakable, my sorrow flowed backwards like a river. The last time I read Hosseini's work "The Kite Runner" was when I was in college, during the lunch break of military training. I just remember that my brain was very uncomfortable, so I remembered it for so many years before I dared to read another one of his novels that I had heard about but never read - "A Thousand Splendid Suns". It took a lot of courage to open it and a long time to digest it. All in all, it's so sad, so sad that I don't dare to look at it when I'm alone at home, so I run to a crowded place, as if the noisy environment can share a little bit of the sadness. But in the cold haze of Afghanistan at that time, it might take a thousand suns to drive away the pervasive despair.

This book uses delicate writing and smooth storyline to tell a shocking story. It allows us to deeply understand the horror of war and the value of peace. It allows us to see the power of women, the mutual sympathy between them and the brilliance of maternal love. It allows us to realize the beauty and hard-won love. If your life is okay now, please cherish the moment. If your life is not so good now, it doesn't matter. Please have hope, because as long as we are alive, there will always be a thousand brilliant suns.

I am more clearly glad that I am Chinese... The helpless Afghan woman, the strong and brave two protagonists, no matter what their origins, are all humble to the dust, interpreting the dedication and sublimation of love. Oh, it would be great if Mariam could survive. Their laws are too imperfect. It is completely self-defense.

Crying at the video of "Pinocchio"...

Why are they born with so much expectation of tolerance and love? If God didn't like girls, why did he allow girls to be born? There are so many Afghan women wearing burqas who have lost their dignity. How many times have they cried bitterly in this glorious world? Will God grieve for His Lamb? Or is it that God is also a supporter of his gender and will only tell you to be tolerant and tolerant? The snowflakes are a reminder of how much suffering women like us endure, she said at the time, and how quietly we endure whatever disaster befalls us. The Bodhisattva who never blessed Mariam is not worthy of blessing me. The temple where I burned incense will reshape your golden body.

The following is from "The Count of Monte Cristo". When I finished reading this book, this passage quickly came to my mind: As for you, Morel, the secret I want to tell you is: there is no such thing as happiness or misfortune in this world, there is only a comparison of one situation with another, that's all. Only those who have experienced extreme misfortune can taste extreme happiness. Only the man who has made up his mind to die, Maximilian, will know how good it is to live. Live happily, my beloved children, and please never forget that until the day comes when God promises to reveal the future for mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these five words: Wait and hope!

"People can't count how many bright moons there are on her roof, nor can they count the thousand brilliant suns behind her walls." This is the poem of the poet Saib, and it is also the soul of the whole book. It points not only to the obscured light of Afghan women, but also to the incredible resilience of human nature, the tenacity of flowers to bloom under stones.

It is a very beautiful name, but it has written so much suffering. The war has brought too many scars to people that are difficult to heal. Only love can stitch up the broken soul. Everything about Mariam, Laila, and Tariq was shattered by the war, but they used their strong will and dared to sacrifice in order to exchange for a bright future. I wish there was no war in the world and it was as bright as a thousand suns!

People can't count how many bright moons there are on her roof I can't even count the thousand splendid suns behind her walls. This is a great work! May there be world peace and may women be free. May our motherland always prosper! I also hope that everyone can be their own sun, without relying on anyone else's light [love]

For a male writer to be able to write such a novel about the plight of women has surpassed many others.

Finished reading on 2025.4.8 19:10 It was very painful for me to read this book. I couldn't imagine what kind of day it was like when I was reading it. Especially when I saw the sentence "Laila's 23rd birthday", she could have lived a brilliant ten years, but war and lies were a waste of her youth. Fortunately, she and Tariq finally ended up happily together. Mariam: She was beaten and insulted by a beast like Rashid for too many years, "but just like in the past, Mariam chose to endure her pain alone and silently." So after seeing her have the courage to beat Rashid to death, I really burst into tears. They had their moments of hostility and moments of relaxation and warmth. People can't count how many bright moons there are on her roof, nor can they count the thousand splendid suns behind her walls. Mariam is Laila's Thousand Splendid Suns May there be world peace and may all women be able to walk freely under the sun

The war closely intertwined Mariam and Laila, two women from different eras. As the wives of an old man with an ugly face and frequent domestic violence, they both experienced a common fate of Afghan women: not having the right to education and the freedom to move alone, being treated as a tool for childbearing and housework by men; being trampled on their dignity by men; being unfairly treated in favor of men by all social resources... Their lives were like grass. What was particularly shocking was seeing the timeline in the book. In 2000, there was still war in Afghanistan. Countless people were displaced. The status of women was not guaranteed. They could be despised at will. Their husbands could bully her at will, but they could not resist. They could not go out freely and could only be accompanied by their husbands. They did not have the right to enjoy education and find a job... Struggling and enduring in difficult situations, they spend their whole lives just to love and be loved. With meager hope and love, they engage in heroic self-salvation, survive the vicissitudes of life, and gain peace and new hope.

Only this writer made me know about Afghanistan, and only this book made me immersed in the situation. Before the bright sun comes, there are countless shadows cast by countless bright moons.

If "The Kite Runner" feels like eating white rice with sand, then "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is the softness of cotton wool in the cracks of bricks. For Mariam, the cracks in the bricks are her father's deception. It was her father who married her to Rashid, who was more than 40 years older than her. She suffered constant miscarriages, and was reduced to a tool and abandoned son by Rashid to clean the house and discover sexual desire, as well as the suffering of the war. For Laila, it was the loss of her parents, more than 20 years of separation from her loved ones, Rashid's domestic violence, and the suffering of war. And the softness of the cotton wool comes from the emotional care and interdependence between women. They care for each other, depend on each other, and are intimate. You finish what I haven't finished for me. This may be the perfect ending of Mariam's life. Laila finally gained a happy family, which is what Mariam hopes to see. The greatest emotion between women is not what achievements I have made or how perfect my life is, but the hope that you can live a better life for me.

I think this is a story about how to make choices and survive in war. The ugliness of human nature is also exposed. The fate of the girls is not controlled by themselves but they can still break out of the haze. I don't know the ending. I hope that to some extent, their endings can be "reborn".

The tragedy of women, extreme religiousism, the cruelty of war, the oppression, control, and cruelty of women make people want to punch the world.

People can't count how many bright moons there are on her roof, nor can they count the thousand brilliant suns behind her walls. It's the high walls built by pain, the bombardment of war and injustice against women, and underneath the thousands of cracks lies a thousand brilliant suns.

It is very touching. Whether it is Mariam, Laila, or the Afghan women during the war, they are unfortunate but also strong. As a daughter, Mariam takes care of Nana and helps her with housework; as a wife, Mariam has taken care of every inch of the house for 20 years; as a mother, Mariam protects Laila and Laila's children. Mariam, who signed her name twice, had no autonomy of her own. The first time he signed his name was when his father was about to marry her to a man in his 20s. The second time he signed his name was in the sentencing court where he was about to be sentenced to death. In the end, Mariam only had her own name, which was given by her mother. The story is touching, and the mutual support of Mariam and Laila is also an extremely weak light that can shine in the darkness in the hearts of two sad Afghan women.

Mariam, Nana will greet you at the door, look over your body, hold your hand and pat your back like she did in childhood. Don't worry, your beloved Nana will never blame you, and you don't have to blame yourself. You and Nana will spend a thousand, ten thousand good days in the past. Your father will take you home just like you imagined in your childhood. It is no longer for the sake of face, but for his good daughter, his queen, which is you. Much later, your daughter, your companion, your thousand splendid suns, Laila, will also be reunited with you. It's nothing to be sad about, even though you would have preferred to meet later, you know that Lila has been missing you for decades. Through her eyes, you see many of the things you hope to see, and it is with this hope that Laila conveys these hopes in several rooms. Mariam, you are not an idiot. You are a brave man. You are a brave man who endures humiliation. You are also a brave man when you pick up a shovel. Because Laila's hope is what you deliver, isn't it? Mariam, this time you finally escaped from the darkness.

People can't count how many bright moons there are on its roof I can't even count the thousand brilliant suns behind its walls.