• Jasjeet Kaur

Afghan women suddenly attracted the attention of many diasporic writers and American media after the attack on the World Trade Center. A deep study of the post colonial literature highlights the fact of Afghani women to be suppressed and dominant and needs the involvement of western military to come out of the jaws of the orthodox views of their own men. Here, a very pertinent question is the way how Afghani women and their plight is represented to the readers throughout the world. For the accurate representation, The Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini has been selected and considered to be authentic to gain more information about the pessimism of Afghan women. A deep study of this novel underlines the grief of women in Afghanistan especially in the times of war. Not only about their grief, this book is a good source to get information about their outlook for their own life and their future, their urge to study and to set themselves free. The purpose of this paper is to examine the way Afghan women have been represented in The Thousand Splendid Suns.

Freedom, Plight of women, Hopes, Ambitions, Possessions

"Plight of Women in A Thousand Splendid Suns", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.861-865, December 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06132.pdf

"Plight of Women in A Thousand Splendid Suns", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp861-865, December 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06132.pdf