Beautiful book.just like a thousand splendid sun.you should read it at any cost.story is about two women leading through miserable, broken yet one reach at the end ( as readers desperately hoped) a future secured by hope.never break the line of reading atleast last 150 pages thats were all climax summon.It is The Good earth and this novel made me as man respects women with their struggles under child hood, wife hood and mother hood .What do we need actually through literature , is just portraying human struggles no no no, we need the change in the Perspective of vision, action and deeds.i always appreciate the female protray by male authors has this fleshy feelings of grim reality which I saw in this novel.still I feel proud about my nation India which secured a secularism on these past centuries and these hope and loves by Lala Jan and mariyam , zaman, tolerance of Tariq will lead us, youth to fill the cracks went wide by religious torture on this holy land .praise for the author and thanks to God who gifted good land to every people., .thanks Amazon.in for chance to read such a splendid suns like novels