Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns.doc

A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Rivekhead Books a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. New York 2007 From the Library of Nicolas Naprstek RIVERHEAD BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA ? Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) ? Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England ? Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) ? Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) ? Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India ? Penguin Group (NZ),61 Apollo Drive,Rosedale, North Shore 0745, Auckland, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) ? Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright? 2007 by ATSS Publications, LLC Translation of the poem Kabul by Josephine Barry Davis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the authors rights. Purchase only authorized editions. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Hosseini, Khaled. A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini. p. cm. ISBN: 1 4295 1460 4 1. Families Fiction. 2. Afghanistan Fiction. I. Title. PS3608.O832K58 2003 2007008679 813.6 dc22 ??This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coinc