A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner has made its place at number one on the USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list. The kite runner still scores as the international best seller and as a book club favorite. The novel expresses the plight of Afghan women. After nine days of sale, some 1,255,000 copies of the book have already been sold. The Reagan Diaries edited by historian Douglas Brinkley rules at No. 3. Al Gore’s The Assault on Reason, makes its mark in the list at No. 5.
As Khaled himself describes the book on his website;
Set in Afghanistan, it is the story of two generations of characters brought together by the tragic sweep of war, with some thirty years of tumultuous recent Afghan history as a backdrop. It is a story about devotion, courage, hope, self-sacrifice, and love. I am tremendously fond and proud of this book, and very much encouraged by the overwhelmingly enthusiastic reaction from its early readers. I look forward to sharing A Thousand Splendid Suns with you this May. And perhaps even meeting some of you on the road.
Source:USAtoday
