Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. “Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
Antonietta Italia Books
Sara Allen es una niña de diez años que vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York. Su mayor deseo es ir sola a Manhattan para llevar a su abuela un tarta de fresa. La abuela de esta moderna Caperucita ha sido cantante de music-hall y se ha casado varias veces. El lobo es míster Woolf, un pastelero multimillonario que vive cerca de Central Park en un rascacielos con forma de tarta. Pero el hilo mágico de este relato se centra en miss Lunatic, una mendiga sin edad que vive de día oculta en la estatua de la Libertad y que sale de noche para mediar en las desgracias humanas o, si es necesario, llegar a regalar un elixir capaz de vencer al miedo.