#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A masterful follow-up to...The Kite Rummer. Not to be missed. A Thousand Splendid Suns will tear at your heart.."- Chicago Sun Times "A Thousand Splendid Suns is an ambitious work. once again the setting is Afghanistan, but this time (Hosseini) Has taken the last thirty-three years of the country's tumultuous history of war and oppression and told it on an intimate scale, through the lives of two women." the New York Times