...if you ask me the author whose books that i read recently, then it has to be Khaled Hosseini . Here, ofcourse, i have to discount the books that i read anew (I do have this habit of going back to a book, reading it in a differnt way, from the first time), and here when i talk of Hosseini, I must mention, the u-turn that has happened to me regarding Hosseini, from the time i heard about 'Kite Runner' and the time i finished ' A Thosand Splendid Suns ' ..."One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls..." One can see many things corresponding to Hosseini's earlier novel ' Kite Runner '. Two things united Afghanisatan, in its pre-70's era - Kite flying, and Kabul's Cultural space consisting of its Musicians and Poets. ...Khaled Hossieni, predictably, obviously for his second novel, goes to this umbilical cord, and takes out the title from this poem...'A Thousand Splen
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