基本信息出版社：Riverhead Hardcover
页码：372 页
出版日期：2007年05月
ISBN：1594489513
条形码：9781594489518
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Chinese edition of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini (author of the Kite Runner) has occupied a spot on the New York Times bestselling fiction list since its publication in May 2007. Whereas "the Kite Runner" focuses on the relationships among men, "Thousand" is about two women, a generation apart, being challenged by war-torn Kabul over thirty years. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
编辑推荐 Marie Claire
`Explores the turbulent history of modern Afghanistan through the lives of two young characters' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The Times
`The novel offers extraordinarily harrowing insights into the lives of Afghan women over the past three decades .... If he cut his teeth by writing about his countrymen, it is the plight of Afghanistan's women that has brought him to realise his full powers as a novelist' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

London Paper Book of the Week
`Hosseini has stuck with his winning formula: compelling, unflashy storytelling centred around two sympathetic protagonists struggling in difficult times ... nothing beats a good story' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Observer
`Hosseini is at his best in some of his description of the landscape and his account of the developing relationship of the two wives, which begins with hostility and slowly blossoms into a concord ...' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.