A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini is set in war torn Afghanistan from the 1970s till the early 2000. It depicts the life of two women living in the same neighborhood –Mariam and Laila, and how their lives intertwine after a series of events and how they support each other in the Taliban ruled Kabul. Although the book is a work of fiction, it is a social commentary on the lives of women in Afghanistan and the oppression they face due to the rules imposed upon them by the Taliban.
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California. He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the …show more content…
Women were not allowed to work outside their home or study in schools. If a woman was seen outside without being covered from head to foot, even if only a little skin was exposed, she would be beaten .Women during this time were denied health care, which included reproductive health care. This lead to many health problems for women since 30-40% of women's health care problems were reproductive health care problems. Other rules confining women during Taliban rule included: the need of windows in homes to be painted to prevent others from viewing women from the outside, women must not laugh, talk loudly, or make any noise at all when in public. All of these rules, among others, made women prisoners in their own homes, unable to go anywhere or do anything without always being under the watch of a man. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, the two main characters, Mariam and Laila, illuminate the reality of the radical rules and oppression that women face in Afghanistan under Taliban
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California. He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the …show more content…
Women were not allowed to work outside their home or study in schools. If a woman was seen outside without being covered from head to foot, even if only a little skin was exposed, she would be beaten .Women during this time were denied health care, which included reproductive health care. This lead to many health problems for women since 30-40% of women's health care problems were reproductive health care problems. Other rules confining women during Taliban rule included: the need of windows in homes to be painted to prevent others from viewing women from the outside, women must not laugh, talk loudly, or make any noise at all when in public. All of these rules, among others, made women prisoners in their own homes, unable to go anywhere or do anything without always being under the watch of a man. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, the two main characters, Mariam and Laila, illuminate the reality of the radical rules and oppression that women face in Afghanistan under Taliban