This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem Kabul by the 17th century Persian Poet Saib
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Today’s Final Jeopardy Category is: Numerical Book Titles
Today’s contestants are Hannah Wilson, Sami Casanova and Juveria Zaheer.
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This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem “Kabul” by the 17th century Persian Poet Saib
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The Final Jeopardy Answer is: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Final Jeopardy Explanation
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” is a novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, published in 2007. The novel takes its title from a line in the poem “Kabul” by the Josephine Davis’ translation of the poem by the 17th-century Persian poet Saib Tabrizi:
Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye
Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs
And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls
The narrative is set in Afghanistan and spans several decades, from the 1960s to the early 2000s, and depicts the connected stories of two Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, who come from quite different backgrounds yet are fated to meet. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy man and a servant, and Laila is the illegitimate daughter of a teacher and his wife. When Mariam and Laila are forced to marry the same abusive guy, Rasheed, who becomes a symbol of the oppression that women experience in Afghanistan, their lives become interwoven.
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