A thousand shining suns

Khaled Hosseini tells in this novel the story of two Afghan women different in terms of origin, environment, and age, they are brought together by circumstances in one house and by feelings of mutual hatred, but those feelings, due to circumstances, change and transform and turn into feelings of love and agreement to the extent of committing a shared crime, one of them bears the guilt of the crime and accepts to be executed, distancing her partner from punishment so she can raise her children. Khaled Hosseini was keen in his novel to monitor the detailed details of the characters' lives and to subtly penetrate their feelings and dreams, and he excelled in conveying the changes in their emotions and mood swings caused by the major external political event that destroyed Afghanistan and returned it to prehistory eras. Rarely do male novelists enjoy such accuracy in exploring women's depths, understanding their feelings, and narrating those detailed emotional changes in different life stages, childhood, adolescence, youth, and maturity. Number of pages: 544