A Thousand Splendid Suns:
A Review by Delonte L. Pearson
"All day, this poem about Kabul has been bouncing around in my head. Saib-e-Tabrizi wrote it back in the seventeenth century, I think. I used to know the whole poem, but all I can remember now is two lines:
"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand suns that hide behind her walls."
Laila looked up, saw him weeping. She put an arm around his waist. "Oh Babi. We'll come back. When the war is over. We'll come back to Kabul, inshallah. You'll see."
"All day, this poem about Kabul has been bouncing around in my head. Saib-e-Tabrizi wrote it back in the seventeenth century, I think. I used to know the whole poem, but all I can remember now is two lines:
"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand suns that hide behind her walls."
Laila looked up, saw him weeping. She put an arm around his waist. "Oh Babi. We'll come back. When the war is over. We'll come back to Kabul, inshallah. You'll see."
Testimonial
First going into the novel is an epic adventure by cause of challenge level. My reading level, being at an already higher level, was raised to an even higher extent. With this base, one may imply that A Thousand Splendid Suns and have the ability to finish with full understanding of the basic themes and messages that the novel provides. There's an unknown quote that states that “The number of times you read a certain passage increases the amount of what you get from it each time.” Using the quote as base for the next statement, when the question is presented “Would you read the novel again and why?”, my answer would equivocate itself with the quote. If there were one thing I would tell a fellow reader about the novel concerning how to get into it , I'd suggest having the ability to be completely open-minded, and therefore ready for anything. Even at the start of the novel ,they are foreign words that aren't really expounded upon until a few pages into the novel. Another would be to expect the unexpected … at all times. Hosseini has a style of writing that may be compared to no other. He makes but then what you'd initially thought seems cruel thoughts; but then what you doubted was going to happen actually happens. It makes you want to cry and tear your hair out, or punch a brick wall. Trust me, I should know.