A Thousand Splendid Suns Alan Sillitoe a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger

a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy

From the bestselling author

She was the pride of the Empire

Stranded behind enemy lines and hounded by the enemy's finest

and ended up dead on a tenement floor

A Thousand Splendid Suns Alan Sillitoe a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph 'A triumph' Financial Times 'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday 'Deeply moving' Sunday Times Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a