Book reportTitle: A Thousand Splendid SunsAuthor: Khaled HosseiniPublisher: Riverhead BooksFirst publication date: 2007Number of pages: 299Genre: FictionSetting: The story takes place in the late 1950s and the early 1960s and then moves to the year 2003. Throughout the story, it is set in Gul Daman, Pakistan, Kabul, and Herat, Afghanistan. Plot: The story is about Mariam, a young girl growing up just outside Herat, Afghanistan. Mariam lives with her mother, Nana, and sees her father, Jalil, only once a week because she was born illegitimate. Because her parents were not married when she was born. Growing up, Marian resented her life and wished she could be a part of her father's life more. On Mariam's fifteenth birthday, she asks Jalil to take her to watch Pinocchio, a cartoon film, for the first time. When he doesn't appear, he goes to sleep outside his house. Mariam's mother, believing that Mariam had abandoned her, commits suicide. Jalil is forced to take Mariam in and she is happy at first, however she is then married to a shoemaker named Rasheed, who lives in Kabul, forcing her to leave her hometown and move there with him. Mariam is unable to conceive a child because she would always lose it due to her health complications. Following multiple miscarriages, the relationship turns into an abusive one. The story then moves on to the life of Laila, a girl who lives in Kabul, in the same neighborhood as Mariam and Rasheed. He lives with his parents and his brothers are soldiers at war. Growing up, Laila is friends with a boy named Tariq. As their friendship grows stronger, Laila falls in love with him. Tariq and Laila are separated because ... middle of paper ... cter in the story thrives on knowledge and even when she could no longer go to school, her father continued to tutor her at home. Laila is also very caring and selfless because when she could have run away with Tariq and married him, she chose to stay because she couldn't risk leaving her parents behind. She is also very intelligent, as demonstrated when she and Mariam plan to escape Rasheed's violent behavior and ride the bus with a stranger they have convinced is their "muharam". Opinion: I didn't like the book A Thousand Splendidi Soli. because sometimes it was too dramatic and very confusing. However, I liked how the author, Khaled Hosseini, was able to smoothly transition from one scene to another in the story. The story was also very emotional in some scenes and at the same time very visual, allowing you to understand the situation much more clearly.