TY - BOOK AU - Hosseini,Khaled TI - THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS SN - 9781408844441 U1 - F PY - 2013////01/01 CY - New Delhi PB - Bloomsburry Publishing KW - Nil KW - Fiction N1 - Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism ER -