![]() ![]() The writing of that first novel, The Kite Runner just kind of brought it all back to me." "I emotionally kind of lost touch with what was going on. The family requested and received political asylum in the United States, where Hosseini later went to medical school and became a physician.įor Hosseini, Afghanistan "became this distant place suddenly for me," he tells Renee Montagne. At the time of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, when Hosseini was 11, his father was working in the Afghan embassy in Paris. Hosseini was born in Kabul, the son of a diplomat and high-school teacher. In it, Hosseini tells the story of two girls who grow close as women - unlikely friends who are brought together in the chaos of war. His new novel is A Thousand Splendid Suns, a title that comes from a 17th-century poem - an ode to the city of Kabul. ![]() The Kite Runner told the story of two boys growing up in Kabul, inseparable until a betrayal - followed by war and flight from war - tore them apart. ![]() No one was more surprised than Khaled Hosseini when his first novel, set in Afghanistan, became a bestseller in America. ![]()
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