Unlike Hosseini's first novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns contains no scenes set in America. Hosseini had left Afghanistan before the Soviet takeover, and Time suggests that this novel is an act towards his redemption for his family’s choice not to return to the country. The reality was that it was actually worse." On the other hand, what I'd written was so terrible, part of me was kind of hoping that it wasn't quite that bad. In early 2007, Hosseini told Time Magazine about this rationale: "On the one hand, I was hoping I'd got it right, that I didn't screw up. Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was written after Hosseini traveled back to his native Afghanistan to examine for himself the nation’s situation in the aftermath of decades of turmoil.
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