How long does it take to read A Thousand Splendid Suns?
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini takes about 7 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 406 pages, about 111,650 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 63 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Khaled Hosseini's novel follows two Afghan women from different backgrounds. Mariam, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, grows up on the edge of Herat with her bitter mother. After a family tragedy, she is hurriedly married to Rasheed, a shoemaker from Kabul who is much older than she is. Laila, born years afterward into a more comfortable life in Kabul, later finds that her own circumstances are upended by a comparable loss. The story places both women within a country marked by war and political upheaval, and it centres on female experience and family bonds.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- suicide
- abuse
- war
Subjects: desertion, Sufism, Pashhtuns, domestic abuse, Tajiks, Taliban
