novel called A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini, the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns, wrote this story to let us readers experience the discourteous and rancorous effects that happened in Afghanistan during the mid-20th century to the early 21st century. This story reveals how the Afghanistan population survived and suffered because of their rambunctious laws and men. In the following review of Khaled Hosseini’s work, A Thousand Splendid Suns, I will summarize the books contents and survey
Abdul-Qadir Bedil and his most favorite book was Divan-e-Hafez. Jack London’s White Fang lays an impact to the young immigration of Khlaed Hosseini. During the immigration, Hosseini and his family faced many hurdles and difficulties. These bitter and unforgettable experience are brought out in his first book. The Kite Runner is more autobiographical. He had a deep admiration for Ahmad Zahir, an Afgan singer. His works are The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. The Kite
(43). Furthermore, Sarma compares the absence of female figures to the ideology of masculinity in this society. For example, due to Amir’s mother dying during childbirth, Hassan’s mother abandoning him, and the overall lack of female figures in the book, Sarma claims, “femininity is constructed to reinforce ‘man as warrior’ construction” (44). The article concludes by summarizing how race and ethnics along with war played an important role in how masculinity was viewed in the society Amir grew up