Her caring nature for Laila is finally seen when she confesses to the murder to draw attention away from Laila even when this meant death ( 1). The response is however fatal and she ends up killing Rasheed with a shove. The love and caring nature of the two is seen as at outstanding and distinct to the extent that Mariam responds to Rasheed’s attack on Laila when she re-unites with her old time lover Tariq.

Despite the sadness and gloom in their life, the two are still able to shine with life and support towards one another, even as co-wives that are many at times expected to be at loggerheads. The title of the novel shows the real essence of the life behind the women’s survival. The two even plan to run away from their husband, but are unfortunately caught and severely punished (Gokce 21). In the abusive marriage the two women become confidantes and comforters to one another. She later becomes a co-wife and the two have to endure an abusive marriage under Rasheed. After the start of the war in Afghanistan, Laila’s parents die and she is taken in by Mariam and Tariq. Its while in her abusive marriage that her life entangles with that of Laila-the co-wife to be that bears an illegitimate child like her out of her relation with Tariq. The marriage gets abusive and she gets no immediate birth out of it. The tragic act is followed by non-caring act by her father Jalil who offers her for marriage to a man much older than her by far. The novel has gloom and doom that starts off with the death of Mariam’s mother through suicide. “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofsĪnd the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls ( 1).” The title to the novel originates from the translation by Davis Josephine of the last line, in the fourth stanza of the poem titled “Kabul” by the Iranian Saib Tabrizi from the 17th century( 1). This particular piece of paper looks at the origin and essence of the title to the book, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” which originates from a poetic quote within the book ( 1). The story spans a length of time that starts in the 60s and ends in 2003 after the Afghan war as the displaced Afghans return from Pakistan.

The book highlights the great challenges that the two women face and in particular the challenges that women face in society as “lesser” members of society. The novel is a 2007 captivating piece of authorship that captures the life of two women whose fate is tied up together in life first through simple neighborhood status and eventually as co-wives to shoe maker-Rasheed. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel by Afghan-American Hosseini Khaled.

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