“And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another … But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.” Following up a great first novel is no easy task, and many writers fall victim to the so-called “sophomore slump”. Not Khaled … More Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini