Tariq loses his leg because of the ongoing war and bombing in the city. The war in the country starts to get worse. She has a childhood friend, Tariq, whom she falls in love with as she grows up. She is a daughter of well-educated parents. The night Soviets take over Afghanistan, a baby girl is born, named Laila. She always lived in fright because of the unpredictable temper of his husband, who would occasionally beat her brutally and later try to compensate his wrong doings with impure apologies. Mariyam’s marriage becomes a prison: Mariam was afraid. This makes Rasheed furious and starts behaving badly with Mariyam. She has miscarriages every time she gets pregnant, in the end having no baby of her own. The newlywed couple lives in Kabul where Mariyam gets pregnant but miscarries. Rasheed is a shoemaker who lives in Kabul. Regardless Mariyam is going to live with a total more abnormal man who demands that she should wear the burka and go upstairs when guests show up, a provisional confidence starts to develop in Mariam that she might have the option to win some love from her better half.
After the suicide of Mariyam’s mother, Jalil and his wives marry young Mariyam, aged only 16, off to Rasheed in his forties.
Mariyam is the illegitimate daughter of Jalil, a wealthy businessman who lives in the city. Poor Mariyam is harassed by her epileptic mother, and she lives for her week after week visits from her deceptive, enchanting father who runs Herat’s film. So, the story starts with Mariyam and her mother, Nana, in the village of Gul Daman. Toward the start, we are dropped into the universe of Mariyam, a little youngster living alone with her unmarried mother in Herat. It is a story oppression, sacrifice, suffering and war. The grief-stricken story is set in Afghanistan, which traverses quite a few years, is driven by the accounts of two ladies, Laila and Mariyam, who belong to different walks of life but end up having similar fate until Laila gets luck enough to run away. A novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is written by contemporary author Khaled Husseini, it is a thrilling depiction of wars stricken in Afghanistan.
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