Book Level-5.4

천개의 화려한 태양. 작가의 처녀작 The Kite Runner를 이을 작품이 또 있을까 하는 생각을 갖기란 쉽지 않았어요. 하지만 Khaled Hoseinis의 두 번째 작품 A Thousand Splendid Suns는 일반적인 예상을 깨고 독자들에게 뜨거운 호응을 받았던 작품입니다. 두 여자들의 이야기에서 절망과 희망을 보게 되는 작품으로 작가의 의도에 동감을 할 수 있는 작품이에요. 조금 어려울 수 도 있지만, 1000명이상의 독자들이 독서평으로 썼다는 것만으로도 읽어보고 싶게 만드는 책이에요.

It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini's compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope.