Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns portrays the harrowing narrative of two women living in oppressive circumstances enforced to them by society and by their husband. In their suffering, the two manage to find strength in each other. Hosseini depicts a complex society in which many factors contribute to the suffering the main characters experience, many of which could be described as New Orientalist. This thesis will analyse the way education is portrayed in the novel and how Hosseini offers us a nuanced presentation that counters the New Orientalist themes present in the novel. We will start by analysing the main characters’ personal attitudes towards education and the parental influences in their lives. Then we will continue to analyse the way society is portrayed to affect potential educational options through other characters. Last, we will focus on the political climate in the novel, in particularly the Soviet Union and the Taliban, and how they affected the development of the educational system present in A Thousand Splendid Suns.