A Thousand Splendid Suns New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award for Children (2014) including its well-respected author team

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The belief that religion was dying became the conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century

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Yet still East Asia festers with a mutual animosity which frequently threatens to draw the world into a twenty-first-century war

A Thousand Splendid Suns New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award for Children (2014) including its well-respected author teamMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen year old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. With