"A Thousand Solendid Suns is an ambitious work. Once again thesetting is Afghanistan, but this time [Hosseini] has taken the last thirty-three years of that country’s tumultuous history of war and oppression and told it on an intimate scale, through the lives of two women." --The New York Times

"Absolutely compelling on every level. It’s nearlv impossible for a novel--a work of fantasy and fabrication--to deliver a formidable blow, a pounding of the senses, a reeling so staggering that we are convinced the characters and their dilemmas are genuine. Such a persuasion is particularly difficult when the setting is Afghanistan, a country and culture many see as too strange for recognition, for empathy. But that’s what Khaled Hosseini does again and again in A Thousand Splendid Suns." --Chicago Sun-Times