EXPLORING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WOMEN IN KHALED HOSSEINI’S “THE THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS”
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11350159Keywords:
Khaled Hosseini, Mariam, Laila, relationship, personality, marriage, spiritual world, feelings, symbolic - figurative imagery, patriarchal society.Abstract
Khaled Hosseini is citizen of Afghanistan living in the United States considered to be one of the leading writers establishing himself as a great representative of literature by his noble works. In 2007, he wrote his second work named «A Thousand Splendid Suns», in which he tried to show the image of the reality of life along with the existence of love in injustice society by describing difficult situations and torture moments of women characters. This work reveals not only the horrors of war, but also importance of peace by the sequence of events occurred in the novel.
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