Reddit reviews A Thousand Splendid Suns

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
   
2. 8/10
   
3. Historical Fiction, Religion, War, Drama, Romance
   
4. It is one of the few books that make me tear up a bit. When I finished reading that book, I told my friends to read it and they enjoyed it too.
   
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There is a heart-breaking book called A Thousand Splendid Suns that actually gets down and deals with the nitty gritty of the situation in the Middle East. You get to follow a few women from different backgrounds as they deal with the changes that occurred when the communist backed regime was overthrown. Learning to walk in burqas, dealing with horribly misogynist laws about curfew and behavior, and the ever present fear that your husband not only considers you subhuman but that he can legally kill you. If you're not already passionate about the battle for women's rights, this book might just be the catalyst.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. He also wrote A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Some of my favorites are The Housekeepr and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I'm also a big fan of Walter Moers(German), but his books aren't everyone's thing. Goodreads might also be a good place to continue your search. I just did this search and found many books that would meet your requirements.

The Helmand province is one of the stricter areas of Aghanistan in terms of modesty and gender roles. Kabul has been and still is one of the more progressive cities in the nation.

If you're interested, check out A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's a really beautiful book about the lives of several women living in Kabul during the Taliban takeover in the 1980s. It's fiction, but the author is an Afghan man with a lot of experience, both personal and impersonal, on the subject.