A Thousand Splendid Suns Themes

Talk about finding love in a hopeless place. The characters of A Thousand Splendid Suns are wounded in wars, stuck in abusive relationships, and rejected by their families. They have to struggle ev...

War! Hoo! Hah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! A Thousand Splendid Suns is defined by war, but that doesn't mean it has to like it. The novel does not shy from showing you the horrible rea...

If there's one subject that A Thousand Splendid Suns focuses on, it's the nature of women. Laila and Mariam live through a rough period for women's rights in Afghanistan. They're controlled by the...

Poverty becomes a crippling problem in A Thousand Splendid Suns. We see its psychological effects on characters like Rasheed and Aziza. Characters that used to be vibrant and energetic, like Zalmai...

Like The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a love letter from Khaled Hosseini to his birthplace of Afghanistan. Although Hosseini left the country for America as a child, his fiction remains...

For once, we have to agree with Kanye—no one man should have all that power. A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with bad dudes who prey on the weak. For some, like Rasheed, this means using viole...

A Thousand Splendid Suns talks a lot about the importance of education. Yes, we all know that school isn't always the most fun thing in the world, but characters like Laila have to struggle just to...

Nobody loves his or her family all of the time. That's just a fact of life. Despite this, A Thousand Splendid Suns suggests that there's no one more important than your family. The novel also sugge...