Mille splendidi soli

• The product has the following name: Mille Splendidi Soli (A Thousand Splendid Suns).

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From her wooden "kolba" atop the hill, Mariam gazes at the distant minarets and eagerly awaits Thursday, the day when her father visits and talks to her about poets and beautiful gardens, rockets landing on the moon, and the movies he shows in his cinema. Mariam longs to have wings to reach her father's house, where he will never take her because she is a "harami," a bastard, and it would be humiliating for his three wives and ten legitimate children to share a roof with her.

Mariam also wishes she could go to school, but her mother tells her it would be pointless, like polishing a spittoon. Laila was born in Kabul on the night of the revolution, in April 1978. She was only two years old when her brothers joined the jihad. On the day of their funeral, she finds it hard to cry. For Laila, her real brother is Tariq, the boy next door who lost a leg on a landmine but can protect her from teasing by other kids; the playmate who teaches her naughty words in Pashto and says goodnight with flashlight signals from his window every night.

Mariam and Laila could not be more different, but war will bring them together unexpectedly. Their intertwined destinies tell a story that retraces the history of a country seeking peace, where friendship and love seem to be the only salvation.