Decent - I'm not the biggest Hosseini - but he is a good writer and it is a page turner.

This is an amazing book. You might think that "The Kite Runner" would be a hard act to follow, but Hosseini's second novel is even better than his first (and that's saying a lot.)
In A Thousand Brilliant Suns, Hosseini is not just more assured, although this feels like the work of a much more accomplished writer. If he cut his teeth by writing about his countrymen, it is the plight of Afghanistan’s women that has brought him to realise his full powers as a novelist.

I have heard such accolades over this book. I really need to read it .

Well I have not actually read this book yet, but I read the Kite Runner and I absolutely loved it. Actually I read it in my hs English class and I was done with the book before the rest of the class was half way through it. I absolutely MUST read this book now!