The heartwarming love tale of a woman who has lost her sight and her husband, who fights for their existence as they travel through Syria as refugees to Europe. Beekeeper Nuri and artist Afra are married. In the lovely Syrian city of Aleppo, they have a straightforward existence full of family and friends—until the unthinkable occurs. They are compelled to flee after the war destroys all they care about. However, Afra’s experience was so horrific that it caused her to lose her vision. As a result, they must go across Turkey and Greece at great risk in order to reach an unknown future in Britain.
Nuri is kept going on the journey by the knowledge that Mustafa, his cousin and business partner, who has established an apiary and is instructing other refugees in Yorkshire in beekeeping, will be waiting for them. In addition to the sorrow of their own unfathomable loss, Nuri and Afra must face perils that would weaken even the most courageous individuals as they journey through a ruined world. They must travel in order to reconnect, above all. The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a moving, potent, sympathetic, and exquisitely written example of how the human spirit may prevail. It is the kind of book that serves as a reminder of the importance of narrative.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
“But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”
“Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.”
“When you belong to someone and they are gone, who are you?”
“It’s amazing, the way we love people from the day we are born, the way we hold on, as if we are holding on to life itself.”
As a result, You ask for a story, therefore I’ll give it to you. 1952 in Afghanistan. In the little village of Shadbagh, Abdullah and his sister Pari reside with their father and stepmother. Together they endure hardship and harsh winters as their father, Saboor, is always looking for a job. Pari, who is as lovely and kind-hearted as the fairy after whom she was named, means the world to Abdullah. Abdullah is more like a dad to her than a brother and will do anything for her, even giving up his one and only pair of shoes for a priceless feather. Each night, they share a cot, their heads touching and their limbs intertwined. The siblings and their father travel to Kabul by way of the desert one day.
The events that will take place there will destroy Pari and Abdullah’s lives; sometimes a finger must be amputated in order to save a hand. Pari and Abdullah have no idea what doom awaits them there. Khaled Hosseini writes about the ties that describe us and shape our lives, the ways in which we assist our loved ones in need, how the decisions we make resonate through history, and how we are frequently surprised by the people closest to us, spanning generations and continents and moving from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
“It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
The Kite Runner is a masterfully written book that is set in a nation that is about to be destroyed and tells the unforgettable, heartbreaking tale of the unexpected connection between a rich child and the son of his father’s servant. It discusses the influence of reading, the cost of betrayal, the potential for forgiveness, as well as the influence of dads upon their sons—their affection, their sacrifices, and their falsehoods.
The Kite Runner is the first Afghan book to be published in English. It recounts a grand tale of family, devotion, and friendships against a never-before-told historical backdrop, evoking the expansive canvases of nineteenth-century Russian writers. The catastrophic history of Afghanistan during the past 30 years is the focus of this narration, which is outdated in style. The Kite Runner is a unique and potent debut that is equally engrossing and sensitive on an emotional level.
Best Quotes from the book:
“For you, a thousand times over” “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
“For you, a thousand times over”
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
“There is only one sin. and that is theft… when you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.”
“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
Ella Rubenstein accepts a position as a reader for a literary agent at the age of forty and in an unhappy marriage. Her first task is to read and analyze the book Sweet Blasphemy, which was authored by Aziz Zahara. Ella is captivated by his account of Shams’s quest for Rumi and the dervish’s contribution to the prosperous but dissatisfied cleric’s transformation into a dedicated mystic, passionate poet, and proponent of love. Shams’s teachings, or rules, which provide insight into an antiquated philosophy based on the equality of all people and religions and the existence of love in every single one of us, also capture her attention. As she continues to read, she comes to understand that Zahara, like Shams, has come to set her free and that Rumi’s story mirrors her own.
Elif Shafak, a renowned Turkish author, presents two enticing parallel narratives in this lyrical, vivacious sequel to her 2007 book The Bastard of Istanbul—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century when Rumi met his spiritual guide, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together embodied the poet’s eternal message of love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”
― Elif Şafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies established her as one of the most outstanding writers of her generation. Her stories are one of just a few debut works – and only a few collections – to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical acclaim for its grace, insight, and compassion in depicting lives transplanted from India to America were among the many other awards and distinctions it garnered.
Lahiri expands on the issues that made her compilation an international phenomenon, including the immigrant experience, cultural clashes, assimilation struggles, and, most poignantly, the braided relationships between generations. Lahiri’s fine touch for the exact detail — the fleeting instant, the turn of phrase — opens up huge worlds of feeling on display once more.
Lahiri portrays Gogol with amazing empathy as he struggles along the first-generation path, which is littered with conflicted loyalties, humorous detours, and wrenching love affairs. She illustrates, with razor-sharp clarity, not just the defining impact of the names and expectations put upon us by our parents, but also the process by which we gradually, and sometimes painfully, begin to define ourselves.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
“Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”
“She has the gift of accepting her life.”
A noisy young family comes in next door, upending the lonely life of a gruff but lovable father. I’m Ove. He’s a curmudgeon, the kind of person who accuses those he doesn’t like of breaking in through his bedroom window. He has short temper, rigid routines, and strong morals. People refer to Ove as the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter simply because he doesn’t always have a smile on his face?
There is a story and grief hidden beneath the gruff appearance. So when a chatty young couple and their two chatty young girls move in next door one November morning and unintentionally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it serves as the prelude to a funny and endearing story of unkempt cats, a surprising friendship, and the age-old skill of backing a U-Haul. All of which will fundamentally alter one grumpy old man and a neighborhood residents’ group.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
“We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if’.”
“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”
“Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”
It is 1939—Hitler’s Germany. The nation is gasping for air. The afterlife will continue to be busier than it has ever been.
Liesel’s life is transformed at her brother’s grave when she picks up a single item partially buried in the snow. She accidentally left The Gravedigger’s Handbook behind, marking her first instance of book theft. As Liesel learns to read with the aid of her accordion-playing foster father, a love affair with words and books begins. She soon starts taking books from libraries owned by the mayor’s wife and Nazi book burnings, among other places.
However, these are perilous times. Liesel’s world is opened and closed when her foster family hides a Jew in their basement. The award-winning novelist Markus Zusak has provided us with one of the greatest fascinating stories of our times in exquisitely constructed prose that burns with fire.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
“I am haunted by humans.”
Composed by Brazilian creator Paulo Coelho in 1988. The story is about a Shepherd kid from Spain whose name is Santiago. He continues to get the very dream about treasures that are covered in the Pyramids of Egypt. He sets out on an excursion to follow his fantasy in the wake of meeting an old lord who offers him enchantment stones and counsel. Santiago crosses the Mediterranean and Sahara to track down his fortunes in Egypt and furthermore achieve his own legend, which is his motivation throughout everyday life. The book subtleties his excursion and the different experiences that he has encountered while following his fantasy. All through the excursion, Santiago meets many new individuals and has a ton of challenges, which at last assist him with learning and developing the whole way.
The Alchemist is a phenomenal book and the narrating is lovely. The selection of words is faultless, brimming with insight and reasoning. I completely cherished it. The story is exceptionally charming and overflows with confidence which I believe is vital in our lives. The book shows that the excursion to your fate is all around as significant as the actual predetermination. I love the way the book underscores the significance of confidence, trust, and otherworldliness through the tale of a conventional kid. I think this book requests to everybody since we as a whole have dreams and once in a while we simply believe somebody should let us know that they might work out. Overall,”The Alchemist” is an exceptionally interesting fiction novel and it merits space on everybody’s shelf.
Yann Martel wrote the fantasy adventure book Life of Pi, which was released in 2001. Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, the main character and a Tamil child from Pondicherry, begins to investigate moral and practical questions at a young age. After being stuck on a ship in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days following a shipwreck, he makes it alive alongside Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
“I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.”
The third book written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, was released in 1925. It chronicles the tragic tale of self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman he once loved, in Jazz Age New York. The narrative of the book is provided by Nick Carraway, who describes the happenings of the summer of 1922 after moving into the fictitious Long Island community of West Egg. He resides there among the newly wealthy, while his cousin Daisy and her violently wealthy husband, Tom Buchanan, reside across the water in the more affluent community of East Egg.
Nick eventually receives an invitation to one of Jay Gatsby’s glamorous parties as the summer goes on. Nick extends an invitation to Daisy to fulfill Gatsby’s wish, and there they rekindle their romance. Tom meets Gatsby at the Plaza Hotel as soon as he learns of the affair. Gatsby claims that he and Daisy have always been in adoration and that she has never loved Tom despite Daisy’s attempts to calm them down. As the altercation intensifies, Tom divulges what he discovered during an inquiry into Gatsby’s affairs: that the man had made his money by dealing in illicit booze. Daisy has abandoned her desire to divorce her husband, and despite Gatsby’s best efforts to the contrary, his case appears doomed.
Daisy, who just knew that Tom was engaging in an affair, does not know who Myrtle Wilson is until she is hit and killed on the road. Daisy is terrified as she continues to drive, but onlookers notice the car. George Wilson, Myrtle’s widower, arrives in East Egg the following afternoon. Tom informs him that Gatsby killed his wife. Wilson visits Gatsby’s home and shoots both the man and himself. Following the Buchanans’ departure from Long Island, Nick plans Gatsby’s burial. Fitzgerald regarded The Great Gatsby as his finest work when it was first released, yet the novel was neither a critical nor financial triumph.
This magnificent debut novel, a literary sensation, and instant bestseller portrays one of Japan’s most famous geishas’ real confessions with perfect authenticity and exquisite lyricism.
Memoirs of a Geisha take us into a world where looks are everything, virginity is sold to the highest bidder, ladies are taught how to seduce the most powerful men, and love is ridiculed as a delusion. It is an original and outstanding piece of fiction that is thrilling, sexual, romantic, and absolutely unforgettable.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
“He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
“Sometimes,” he sighed, “I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ”
One unprecedented move is about to be taken by three regular women. Skeeter, who is twenty-two years old, graduated from Ole Miss and has since moved back home. Even though she may have a degree, it is 1962 in Mississippi, and Skeeter’s mother won’t be content until she has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would often seek comfort from the lady who reared her, her loving maid Constantine, but Constantine has vanished, and no one would tell Skeeter where she has fled.
Aibileen is a smart, regal black maid who is parenting her seventeenth child who is white. After losing her beloved son, who passed away while his superiors turned a blind eye, something inside of her changed. Despite knowing that both of their hearts might be crushed, she is dedicated to the young girl she tends after.
Kathryn Stockett invents three exceptional people with pitch-perfect voices, whose will to begin a campaign of their own transforms a community and the way in which mothers, daughters, carers, and friends see one another. The Help is a profoundly touching book that is full of poignancy, comedy, and hope. It is a timeless and enduring tale about the lines we follow and the ones we can’t control.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
“All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.”
“Wasn’t that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I’d thought.”
“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
“Stuart needs “space” and “time,” as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
The classic story of a boyhood in a peaceful Southern community and the moral crisis that shook it. When it was initially released in 1960, “To Kill A Mockingbird” has become an immediate bestseller and a popular book among critics. It later went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was eventually turned into a great film that won an Oscar.
“To Kill A Mockingbird” is a compassionate, dramatic, and profoundly touching book that explores the fundamentals of human conduct, including purity and expertise, kindness and brutality, love and hatred, humor and pathos. This local tale by a young Alabama woman claims international appeal with over 18 million copies currently in print and adapted into forty languages. Harper Lee has always viewed her novel as a straightforward love story. It is considered a literary masterpiece in America today.
A descendant of one of the richest families in Sweden, Harriet Vanger vanished nearly 40 years ago. Her elderly uncle is still searching for the truth all these years later. Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently imprisoned for libel, is hired by him to conduct the investigation. The tattooed and pierced punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander supports him. Together, they are able to access a source of astounding corruption and unfathomable injustice.
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, an international bestseller, mixes a murder investigation, a family history, a love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly intricate and captivatingly atmospheric book.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
“Everyone has secrets. It’s just a matter of finding out what they are.”
“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”
“I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.”
William Golding, a British author who won the Nobel Prize, published Lord of the Flies in 1954. The story follows a bunch of British youths’ unsuccessful attempts to rule themselves while stuck on a deserted island.
The story revolves around a gang of schoolboys who get lost on a desolate island. However, don’t allow the young cast to fool you into believing that this is a kid’s book. I had no idea Lord of the Flies was as dark as it is, and I was shocked by some of the things that happened.
The young lads initially make an effort to emulate the island’s tidy adult society. To ensure that any passing ships can see the smoke coming from the island, they band together just to keep a fire going. However, without any adults there to watch over them, the lads start to act violently, cruelly, and brutally in an effort to live.
In the end, I gave this book a 3 out of 5-star rating since I was generally unimpressed and let down by the plot. For young adults who want to read a classic psychological survival thriller, this book’s brief length is ideal. Personally, I don’t think I’ll read this book again because I found most of the tale to be really boring. Although it was intriguing to observe how the mind can evolve to survive such a challenging circumstance and turn it into a game. I think you’ll also enjoy reading this book if you have any interests in sociology or psychology.
The bestselling author of Riding Lessons presents an atmospheric, gritty, and fascinating story of star-crossed lovers, situated in the circus world around 1932.
Jacob Jankowski, who has just become orphaned and is now stranded, boards a passing train and joins a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits. This second-rate circus is striving to survive the Great Depression by having one-night stands in countless towns. Jacob, a veterinary student who was on the verge of graduating, is tasked with taking care of the circus’s animal collection. There, he meets August, the charming but deranged animal trainer, who is married to Marlena, the stunning young star of the equestrian act. He also encounters Rosie, an elephant who at first seems impossible to teach until he finds a method to get to her.
Water for Elephants is exquisitely written and has a fantastic feeling of place and time. In a society where even love is considered a commodity that few can afford, it depicts the tale of a romance between two people who triumph over extraordinary circumstances.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.”
“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”
“Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.”
“Life is the most spectacular show on earth ♥”
“The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it’s presence. ”
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a unique masterpiece that ranks among the 20th century’s most influential books; as its dystopian purgatory becomes more real, it gets more menacing. The dystopian social science fiction book Nineteen Eighty-Four by English author George Orwell serves as a warning. It was Orwell’s ninth and last book that he finished during his lifetime, and Secker & Warburg released it on June 8, 1949.
The 1949 publication of the book features political satirist George Orwell’s terrifying portrayal of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff’s quest for identity. The novel’s genius lies in Orwell’s prescience of contemporary life—the pervasiveness of television, the linguistic distortion—and his capacity to provide such an in-depth depiction of hell. It has been compulsory reading for students from the moment it was published and is one of the scariest books ever.
Animal Farm, a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell about a farm, was first released in England on August 17, 1945. It depicts the tale of a band of farm animals who rise up to confront their man farmer in an effort to establish an animal-friendly society.
Animals that have been abused and overworked on a farm take over. They went out to construct a paradise of advancement, fairness, and equality with fiery idealism and passionate slogans. The setting is therefore set for one of the most incisive satiric tales ever written—a sharp-edged fairy tale for adults that charts the progression from the revolt against oppression to totalitarianism that is just as dreadful. As Animal Farm was initially published, it was thought to be directed toward Stalinist Russia. Today, it is glaringly obvious that George Orwell’s masterpiece has a meaning and a message that are still fiercely relevant wherever and whenever liberty is attacked, regardless of the cause.
The Secret Life of Bees is a 1964 South Carolina-set novel about Lily Owens, whose life has been molded by the hazy memory of the afternoon her mother was murdered. Lily chooses to set both of the town’s most virulent racists free when Rosaleen, her strong-willed black “stand-in mother,” taunts them. They flee to Tiburon, South Carolina, a place where the truth about her mother’s background may be found. Lily is taken in by an oddball group of three black beekeeping sisters, who show her around their fascinating world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna. Women will share and pass on this amazing book on divine female strength to their daughters in the coming years.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.”
“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.”
“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”
“Sunset is the saddest light there is.”
“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
Years of “Marsh Girl” rumors pervaded the sleepy fishing community of Barkley Cove. Kya Clark is wild and untamable; she has no business in a civilized society. Thus, when the well-known Chase Andrews is discovered dead in late 1969, the neighborhood quickly suspects her.
Kya, however, is not who they claim. She is a born naturalist who attended school for one day before learning from the countryside and observing the deceitful signals of fireflies to understand the true ways of the world. She has the ability to remain alone forever, but eventually, she starts to long to be caressed and loved. Kya discovers a brand-new and unexpected world after being drawn to two young guys from the area who are all taken by her untamed beauty—until the unimaginable occurs.
In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens contrasts a beautiful hymn to nature with a moving coming-of-age tale and eerie mystery. The thought-provoking, sage, and profoundly emotional debut book by Owens remind us that we are always being formed by the child within of us and are equally vulnerable to the violent and beautiful mysteries that nature holds. The plot concerns the impact of solitude on the actions of a young woman who, like all of us, is genetically predisposed to group membership. The rich ecosystem and natural history of its wild inhabitants are dusted with hints of mystery.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I wasn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.”
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
“Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
“If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”
In A Thousand Splendid Suns, the brutality, fear, hope, and faith of this nation are expressed in intimate, human words against the turbulent backdrop of the past thirty years in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion to the Taliban’s rule to the post-Taliban rebuilding. The sad sweep of war brings two generations of characters together in this story, and their personal lives—the battle to survive, to build a family, to achieve happiness—are inextricably linked to the events unfolding all around them.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, powered by the same storytelling talent that made The Kite Runner a revered classic, is both a fascinating account of 3 decades of Afghan history and a profoundly emotional novel about family and friendship. A spectacular accomplishment, it is a powerful, heartbreaking novel about a merciless time, an unexpected bond, and unbreakable love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”