Nilofar Rashid is Head Mistress (J.P.S.) in I.I.S.J, Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia and is a research scholar. Her area of interest is Indian Writing in English
Online published on 26 March, 2021.
“A thousand splendid suns” and “And the mountain echoed “tells the story of women suffering and her way to come out from all these. The role of a woman and how they are undermined and abused brutally by men in Afghani culture. Their fundamental human rights violated but they also suffered from gender-based abuse. Hosseini has undertaken the chance of making women more self-conscious. The women in Afghan society endure all hardships for a better tomorrow. The new Afganistan where every girl child is given a chance to study, everyone will get a right to vote and women can walk freely outside without any male heir is the dream for Hosseini as he has said earlier in different interviews. Through his fiction, he has shown not only the dark side of women but also some of the splendid virtues of women. Hosseini succeeded in portraying the women suffering and their emancipation.
