1000 splendid suns
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In 1960s Herat, Afghanistan, Mariam grows up in a small house on the edge of town, the unacknowledged daughter of a prosperous businessman who visits her only now and then. Her mother has taught her to expect little from the world, and Mariam measures her life by the few hours she spends with him. When she reaches young womanhood, a marriage is arranged that will take her away from everything she knows, to the crowded city of Kabul and a household she has never imagined.
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As the years pass, the country is shaken by upheaval, and the lives of women in its cities and villages are reshaped by forces beyond any single family's control. The novel follows two women from very different starting points as they come to share a life in a time of war.
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