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After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same... read more
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Summary
The novel is divided into four parts. The first part focuses exclusively on Mariam, the second and fourth parts focus on Laila, and the third part switches focus between Mariam and Laila with each chapter.
Mariam lives in a house with her mother. Jalil, her father, is a wealthy man who... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters
- Mariam: Jalil and Nana's daughter
- Nana: Mariam's mother
- Mullah Faizullah: Mariam's teacher and friend
- Jalil: Mariam's father
- Laila: Mariam's neighbour who later became raseed second wife and Mariam’s best friend.
- Hakim: Laila's father
- Fariba: Laila's mother
- Rasheed: antagonist
- Tariq: the boy who love laila and at the end they marry with each other
- Aziza: Laila and Tariq's daughter
- Zalmai: Laila and Rasheed's son
Memorable Quotes
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“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.”
Nana -
“Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.”
Jalil -
“Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before.”
Babi -
“Tell your secrets to the wind but don't blame it for telling the trees.”
Laila -
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
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“To me, it's nonsense - and very dangerous nonsense at that - all this talk of I'm Tajik and you're Pashtun and he's Hazara and she's Uzbek. We're all Afghans, and that's all that should matter.”
Babi/Hakim
Setting & Important Places
First Sentence
Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Khaled Hosseini (Author)
Awards
Classification
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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