A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Type:Paperback Xích Si expects to be

Xích Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates' enigmatic leader

who wants to mend Talin’s ills

or give in to the ill-fated attraction that’s growing between her and Cyrus

But when the king asks her to falsely prophesy Cyrus’s love story for an upcoming ball

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Type:Paperback Xích Si expects to beblurb: Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen year old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and