A Thousand Splendid Suns. By Jennifer Reese. Published on May 18, 2007 04:00AM EDT. ... Tariq feels the same, but there is one force stronger than young love: history. Mujahideen rockets rain on ...

Playing now through February 26, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' is at once haunting and hopeful; ... Laila speaks of Tariq , the boy she loved and the family life she misses so much. Though ...

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS tells the story of two women, Mariam and Laila, who are trapped in a system that leaves them with little to no power or choice over their own lives.

The tragic timeliness of “A Thousand Splendid Suns ... In the end, Mariam sacrifices herself for Laila and Laila is reunited with Tariq, her friend and paramour whom she believed dead.

“A Thousand Splendid Suns” Music by Sheila Silver, libretto by Stephen Kitsakos. Through March 11; Seattle Opera at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle; $49-$199; 206-389-7676, seattleopera.org ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns, a lovely phrase from a 17th-century Persian poem, ... Tariq, having fled to protect his parents, reappears. Rasheed almost kills Laila and is killed in return by Mariam.

Former Seattle Opera general director Aidan Lang met Silver in 2014 and officially commissioned “A Thousand Splendid Suns” after hearing a workshop performance of selections from it in 2015 ...

The novel on which “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is based came out in 2007. So much has happened in Afghanistan since then, but Sadat said the operatic version retains its timeliness.