The story in itself is a simple one, with nothing extraordinary about the incidents it strings together. Also read: Book Review of The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.Mariam and Laila’s lives intersect and most of the remaining story focuses on the mother-daughter bond that they develop. Orphaned and alone, she is given shelter by Rasheed, only to be married to him, in the hope of providing him with the son he still hopes to have. Laila is a young girl, with hopes, aspirations and a love life all of which is shaken up by a Taliban bombing. Unable to produce a son for him, she becomes victim of domestic abuse and confinement at the hands of Rasheed. The story is about two women, Mariam and Laila, married to an abusive and dominating man, Rasheed, and explores their lives amidst the backdrop of the Taliban assuming control in Afghanistan. Mariam is the illegitimate child of a wealthy businessman, who is given in marriage by her father to a man thirty years her senior when her mother dies. It is a hard hitting, graphic in a non-gory manner, emotionally charged story that makes you want to put down the book and yet read on, with every chapter, especially if you are a mother. Have you ever come across a book that you just don’t want to stop reading and yet are afraid to continue reading, for fear of how much more there is to come? A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a book that makes you feel just like that.
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