Representation of Contemporary Afghan History in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

Abstract

This research intends to investigate Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns from the perspective of New Historicism, focusing on the historicity of text. This paper concludes that the novel reflects on history through the reconstruction of historical events.Hosseini re-examines the history of Afghanistan in about 30-year wars from a new perspective and with a new discourse.The novel represents the plight of the people of Afghanistan in the aftermath of the cold war and the deprived identities of people when the struggle reaches a nightmarish level.Hosseini's work becam a medium to understand Afghan culture and tradition.This novel coincides with the main points of New Historicism, based on which thesis attempts to analyse the historical background, the themes and the characters of the novel.