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Khaled Hosseini's voice. Recorded February 2014 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub. Website. www .khaledhosseini .com. Khaled Hosseini ( / ˈhɑːlɛdhoʊˈseɪni / ;Persian/Pashto خالد حسینی [ˈxɒled hoˈsejni]; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician.
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed.
Jun 7, 2024 · Khaled Hosseini (b. 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist who was known for his vivid depictions of Afghanistan, most notable in The Kite Runner (2003). His other books included A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), And the Mountains Echoed (2013), and Sea Prayer (2018).
Khaled Hosseini has 45 books on Goodreads with 8689280 ratings. Khaled Hosseini’s most popular book is The Kite Runner.
Khaled Hosseini lived and worked as a medical internist at Kaiser Hospital in Mountain View, California for several years before publishing The Kite Runner. [3] [6] [7] In 1999, Hosseini learned through a news report that the Taliban had banned kite flying in Afghanistan, [8] a restriction he found particularly cruel. [9] .
About Khaled Hosseini: Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Em...
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner. Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy.
Today, Khaled Hosseini is one of the most recognized and bestselling authors in the world. His books, The Kite Runner , A Thousand Splendid Suns , and And the Mountains Echoed , have been published in over seventy countries and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
Sep 14, 2022 · In the U.S., Khaled Hosseini became a successful physician, but he longed to tell the world something of the life he knew before his country was consumed by war. He rose at four o'clock every morning to work on The Kite Runner before a full day of seeing patients.
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Afghan as the protagonist.
