Hosseini's Look at Cultural Conflict in Afghanistan Book Review by Nicky

This paper provides a review and analysis of Khaled Hosseini's novel, "A Thousand Splendid Suns." In addition to being a wonderful novel with characters that come alive and tell their own stories with emotion and grace, the paper asserts, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" helps the reader dive into Afghanistan's cultural conflicts, including the treatment of women, in a powerful way. The paper explains that the novel helps the reader to understand past and modern life in Afghanistan's past, a country that is in the midst of a grueling war; however, war is nothing new to Afghanistan. The paper concludes that in Afghanistan during the time, being a woman in a Taliban-controlled extremist Muslim culture was far more than problematic - it was dangerous, even deadly.