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1goydaeh
A library patron just requested this, saying that she saw it listed as upcoming in the back of a copy of the Kite Runner. (All my copies are checked out right now, so I can't check.) Given the chronology, I'm guessing that A Thousand Splendid Suns had a different title at some point, but can someone confirm/deny?
2lorax
That's correct.
From http://powells.com/authors/khaledhosseini.html :
Dave: If I can trust my paperback copy of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns was at one point called Dreaming in Titanic City.
Hosseini: Hundreds of thousands of this edition were printed with that title, which eventually was changed. I liked the title until I started taking a lot of questions about the Titanic and realized that it was misleading.
As much as I liked the sound of it, it became obtrusive. People thought it was about the ship. It's not. Titanic City was, for a while, a neighborhood in Kabul where people sold ordinary goods and put the word "Titanic" in front of the name so they could charge a little extra, just because the movie was such a huge cultural phenomenon. Titanic Toothpaste. But I took so many questions about the ship that I understood the title wasn't going to work. This is a novel about Afghanistan, not about the Titanic.
From http://powells.com/authors/khaledhosseini.html :
Dave: If I can trust my paperback copy of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns was at one point called Dreaming in Titanic City.
Hosseini: Hundreds of thousands of this edition were printed with that title, which eventually was changed. I liked the title until I started taking a lot of questions about the Titanic and realized that it was misleading.
As much as I liked the sound of it, it became obtrusive. People thought it was about the ship. It's not. Titanic City was, for a while, a neighborhood in Kabul where people sold ordinary goods and put the word "Titanic" in front of the name so they could charge a little extra, just because the movie was such a huge cultural phenomenon. Titanic Toothpaste. But I took so many questions about the ship that I understood the title wasn't going to work. This is a novel about Afghanistan, not about the Titanic.
