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Author:

Hosseini, Khaled.

Title:

A thousand splendid suns [Sound recording] / Khaled Hosseini.

Format:

[Sound recording] /

Edition:

Unabridged ed.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Audio,

Copyright Date:

p2007

Description:

11 sound discs (ca. 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Women--Afghanistan--Fiction.
Family--Fiction.
Abused women--Fiction.
Afghanistan--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Leoni, Atossa.

Notes:

Compact discs. Read by Atossa Leoni.

Summary:

"[An] epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. Mariam is the scorned illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, forced at age 15 into marrying the 40-year-old Rasheed, who grows increasingly brutal as she fails to produce a child. Eighteen later, Rasheed takes another wife, 14-year-old Laila, a smart and spirited girl whose only other options, after her parents are killed by rocket fire, are prostitution or starvation. Against a backdrop of unending war, Mariam and Laila become allies in an asymmetrical battle with Rasheed, whose violent misogyny ... is endorsed by custom and law."--from Publishers Weekly.

ISBN:

0743554450
9780743554459

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

VWPC964 -- Calmar Public Library (Calmar)

SBPB074 -- Dunkerton Public Library (Dunkerton)

VGPC334 -- Fayette Community Library (Fayette)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)

XGPC697 -- Villisca Public Library (Villisca)

CXPC586 -- Keck Memorial Library (Wapello)