You pity the husband, for his past is one with sorrow much like Mariam's- it does not justify his actions- but you feel sympathy for his situation. And then the continual miscarriages.ĭomestic abuse? Yup, I knew there must be some somewhere. Rasheed is a kind man, albeit rather archaic in his manner and grumpy, but all things considered Mariam's life does not seem so terrible anymore. Not soon into the story, Mariam discovers the emptiness in her father's love and after her mother's suicide, is forced to marry a man more than 20 years her senior, her being only 15. Hosseini introduces a naïve child whom you immediately pity, and also feel a foreboding clutch the pages. Branded a harami, an illegitimate child, Mariam faces many prejudices and blame not only from the family of her father, but also from her own mother. The novel is split in a dual narrative, the first being Mariam when she is nine, living on the outskirts of Herat with her bitter mother, anxiously in wait for the once-a-week visits from her wealthy father. A Thousand Splendid Suns covers much more than the aforementioned. And so shall you but not for the reasons you would expect.
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