Maryam lives in a house with her mother, while Khalil is her father, he is a rich man who lives in Medina with three wives and several children, and because Mary is his illegitimate daughter, she cannot live with them, but Khalil visits her every Thursday.

On her fifteenth birthday, Maryam wanted her father to accompany her to watch Pinocchio in the movie theater, and when she did not find her father to go to his home, her father refused to see her and he slept on the balcony, and in the morning, Maryam returns to find her mother and she has hanged herself because of the fear that her daughter will be She has deserted her, Maryam then goes to live in her father’s house, and her father marries her to Rashid, a shoe maker from Kabul. Soon Mary becomes pregnant, but the child abortes and becomes rude to his young bride.
Maryam was not over fifteen when she was sent to Kabul to marry Rashid. About two decades later, a friendship develops between Mary and a Kabul girl, a strong friendship like the bond between a mother and her daughter. And when the Taliban seize power, life turns into a desperate struggle against famine, brutality, and fear. But love may push people to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most terrifying obstacles with a stunning heroism.


On the last page of the novel, Afghan writer Khaled Hosseini states that the title of the novel (A Thousand Splendid Suns) comes from a poem by the poet Saeb Tabrizi, an Afghan poet from the seventeenth century. This novel - published by Dal Publishing House, with a good translation by Maha Saud - cannot be read unless the reader feels that he is hijacked, that he is in the heart of hell, to the point that I repeatedly asked: Is it not reasonable that hell is life on earth, and that humans are delusional as they imagine that Hell is somewhere else !! It is true that the story revolves around the novel, about two Afghan women, Maryam and Layla, Maryam, the daughter of the Sacred, to a wealthy Afghan man, who has three wives, but after passing a relationship with a lowly woman, he found himself the father of a child, who he did not dare to admit, because he would discredit his reputation And the reputation of his three wives and sons, Mary lived with her mother, a miserable life, but she loved her father a lot, and dreamed that one day he would open his home for him .. But after the death of her mother committed suicide, he hurried to marry her to a man older than thirty years, he is a widow and his son died by drowning. Mary submits to her father’s will, hides her pain, and lives with her husband as a servant .. And she didn’t succeed in giving birth to him with a son, so She takes an excuse for hitting, despising and treating her as if she were an animal, and his hatred of her exploded overwhelming and horrific, to the point that he forced her one day to chew the gravel against her will, enjoying a voice that broke her teeth ... Laila is his second wife, who witnessed the death of her family, due to the war between the Mujahideen The Soviets, who did not die by accident despite being hit by shrapnel in the back, were Laila, who was pregnant from Tariq, the young man she loved and whom the war had lost in the leg.