![]() Mammy takes refuge in her dark bedroom following her sons’ deaths and never quite seems to be able to overcome her grief. On the other hand, there are other types of suffering that the characters willingly endure in the service of others.Ī Thousand Splendid Suns seems to grapple with how to create a hierarchy of grief and suffering: is the loss of Laila’s brothers, after Babi (or so Mammy accuses him) allowed them to fight the Mujahideen, somehow worse than the random rocket that killed Laila’s friend Giti? The characters grapple with such suffering in different ways. The loss of loved ones brings its own kind of acute pain-often in a way that seems to lack any kind of redemption. However, this suffering takes different forms. None of the characters in the novel is a stranger to pain and suffering, either physical or emotional. ![]()
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