A thousand splendid suns - Second blog post
Having read a few chapters into the book, some characters have really started to stand out. Nana, Mariams mother, was kicked out from her husband Jalil's house when she got pregnant because he didn't want her in the house of his other wifes. She is built a small shack out in the yard and it is there she now lives with her daughter Mariam.
Nana doesn't like visitors, but a couple of characters still visit. One of them are Mullah Faizullah, who is understandably a nice and loving man by the way Hosseini descrbes him. He visits to tutor Mariam and she likes him, because he, in comparison to Nana listens to what she has to say. Nana's bad temper with other people is later explained to go back to her younger days when she was promised to marry a man, but was only left with a child and a broken heart. Having read this, I can really start to understand that she only wants the best for her daughter.
The book is split into different parts and in the second, a new set of characters are introduced. Laila is the daughter of Hakim and Fariba. She is what could be called the main character of the second part. Both her borthers Ahmad and Noor together with her parents are all killed in the war against the Soviet. Laila, alone without friends nor family becomes the second wife of the stern and hot tempered Rasheed who has married Mariam in the end of the first part.
Seeing that Nana hangs herself in depression in the first part, I can start to see that a relation between the two women, Laila and Mariam will soon start to occur, they both have horrible history and only one another to be comforted by.
