英文读书报告模板 Book Report.docx

A?Book?Report?of a Thousand Splendid SunsTranslation 1x2 150704203xBrief IntroductionA Thousand Splendid Suns?is a 2007 novel by?Afghan-American?author?Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following hisbestselling?2003 debut,?The Kite Runner. Mariam is an illegitimate child, and suffers from both the stigma surrounding her birth along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariams husband.The author Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a mother-daughter story in contrast to?The Kite Runner, which he considers a father-son story.It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as the familial aspects, but focuses primarily on female characters and their roles in Afghan society.The Author ＆ BackgroundKhaled Hosseini?(?born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American?novelist?and?physician.?After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to an arranged marriage.?He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut?The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of?The Kite Runner?he retired from medicine to write full-time.Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father worked as a diplomat, and when Hosseini was 11 years old, the family moved to France; four years later, they applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a citizen. Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2001 at the age of 36, where he felt like a tourist in hisown country.Hosseini visited Afghanistan in 2003, and heard so many stories about what happened to women, the tragedies that they had endured, the difficulties, the gender-based violence that they had suffered, the discrimination, the being barred from active life during t