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Ranked #3759 in Arts, #81580 overall

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Who Is Khaled Hosseini?

 

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul Afghanistan in 1965. The son of a diplomat and a teacher, Hosseini himself is a qualified physician and worked in this field before turning his hand to novel writing. In addition to his writing he is also a UNHCR goodwill envoy.

In 1980 Hosseini and his family arrived in the USA having sought and been granted political asylum, following the Soviet invasion.

Hosseini's first novel 'The Kite Runner' was published in 2004 and a sucessful film adaptation was released in 2007. His second novel 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' was also published in 2007.

On this lens you'll find links, clips, books and further information on Hosseini and his work.

Khaled Hosseini Bibliography 

The Kite Runner (2004)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

A Thousand Splendid Suns 

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Amazon Price: $15.57 (as of 08/08/2008)

This book centres on the story of two women. Mariam is an illegitimate child who lives in the wilderness with her troubled mother. Her father visits her weekly providing her with the only real happiness in her bleak existence. However her father only visits her at home she cannot visit him or go to the city with him. Mariam's life is blighted by tragedy when she decides to go and visit her fathers home. This decision has consequences which alter the course of Mariam's life forever.

Laila enters Mariam's life later in the novel when she is orphaned and Mariam's husband takes her as a second wife. Despite Mariam's initial hostility to Laila the two women form a close and intense friendship and unite against their brutal husband Rasheed.

This is a very moving and gripping tale of love, betrayal, strength endurance and hope in the most apparently hopeless of circumstances.

The Kite Runner 

The Kite Runner

Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 08/08/2008)

The novel opens in Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy and centres on the friendship between Amir and and his best friend Hassan, the son of his father's servant.

When Amir betrays his friend Hassan he is haunted by his actions into adulthood so much so that his guilt compels him to return to Afghanistan to make amends, years after he has emigrated to the USA. This is a moving and engaging tale of hope, guilt, betrayal and redemption.

The Kite Runner (DVD) 

The Kite Runner

Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 08/08/2008)

The movie of the book (see above)

The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns 

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Khaled Hosseini Clips 


Khaled Hosseini discusses A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Khaled Hosseini at Booksmith

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Stephen Colbert "arguing" with Khaled Hosseini on BookTV

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Khaled Hosseini-Kite Runner author-visits Darfur Refugees

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Khaled Hosseini -- Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Khaled Hosseini Interviewed On KVOS TV

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The Kite Runner Movie Trailer

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The Kite Runner Video

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The Kite Runner

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Khaled Hosseini In His Own Words 

'When UNHCR asked me to work with them as a goodwill envoy, I didn't think twice. As a native of Afghanistan, a country with one of the world's largest refugee populations, the refugee issue is one that is close and dear to my heart. My role with UNHCR is to speak on behalf of the refugee cause and to serve as a public advocate for refugees around the world. It will be my privilege to try to capture public attention and to use my access to media to give voice to victims of humanitarian crises. I look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration with UNHCR.'

'I hope The Kite Runner gives the Western reader some insight into and a sense of the identity of Afghan people that they may not get from mainstream news media. Fiction is a wonderful medium to convey such things. And I hope that the book helps humanize the Afghan people and put a personal face to what has happened there.'

'If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans , then I think it will have done a service to the community.'

'I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history. For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.'

'I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.'

'In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.'

'I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland. I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.'

'I grew up admiring my father greatly and had a very intense desire to please him.'

'During the Taliban era you couldn't read about Afghanistan without reading about hunger, war, landmines, refugees, and so on. The Taliban did nothing to alleviate those problems. What they did do was add a sense of the absurd on a grand scale. When they ordered the Buddha statues destroyed and prohibited art and sports and all the things that people take enjoyment in, we were all in a state of disbelief. We shook our heads and wondered how it had come to this.'

'The Taliban did Afghanistan a great, great disservice by shutting women out of the workplace. So the damage they inflicted is going to take years to repair: rebuilding the schools, getting girls to pick up books again, re-acclimating women into the workplace, and so forth. I think it's very tragic.'

'My dad came from a small village just a few kilometers from Herat, which is a large town in western Afghanistan. He was an only child raised by his mother (his father died when he was two years old). My mom was brought up in Herat itself. We're talking about the 1940s and '50s here so there was very little infrastructure where they lived - no electricity, no running water and so on.'

'That first couple of years in America was a difficult time for all of us. For my siblings and me, in addition to the anxiety of learning a new language, there were the usual fears of adolescence and pre- adolescence: Will I fit in? Will I make friends? Am I ever going to learn English? And will other kids make fun of me?'

'Afghanistan is full of great storytellers, and I was raised around people who were very adept at capturing an audience's attention with their storytelling skills. I have been told that there is an old fashioned sense of story telling in The Kite Runner. I would agree. It's what I like to read, and what I like to write.'

' don't quite know where the drive to tell a story comes from, for me or anyone else. Nor do I really know where the stories themselves come from. What I can say that for me, as I suspect for many other writers, a story grips me and demands to be told. The drive to tell a story becomes a compulsion. So there is little choice left. You either tell the story or go around absent-minded and in a half-daze. Stephen King once said that if you have a story to tell and the skill to tell it, and you don't, then you are a monkey. The point is stories, good stories at least, demand to be written.'

Khaled Hosseini Auctions 

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Khaled Hosseini Audiobooks 

A Thousand Splendid Suns {Unabridged} {Cd}

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The Kite Runner

Amazon Price: $29.67 (as of 08/08/2008)

More Khahled Hosseini Clips 


The Kite Runner author visits Afghanistan

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the Kite Runner trailer-Kashgar ( Uyghur)

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Reel Geezers - The Kite Runner

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The Kite Runner Trailer

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ALD Live - A Thousand Splendid Suns Book Review

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

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The Kite Runner at Mill Valley Film Festival

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The Kite Runner Clip #1-Four You 1000-DreamWorksFansite.com

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Ehsan Aman's new Song from Kite Runner movie Omaid e Man

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The Khaled Hosseini Book Club In A Box 

The Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guides are designed to stimulate thought and discussion on all aspects of the books covered. Whether you are an experienced book group organiser or completely new you'll find these guides invaluable.

Khaled Hosseini Buzz 

Khaled Hosseini’s A Quite some Sumptuous Suns
Khaled Hosseini's A Chiliarchia Heavenly Suns is a sensitively told if negligibly inadequate idle talk concerning the operose relative to the fusty-willed Mariam's inside and the chance inner self gets, decades in the future, ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Title: A Thouensand Splendid Suns Author: Khaled Hosseini Publisher: Riverhead Books (the Penguin Group) Publish Date: 2007 ISBN: 9781594489501 ?it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant people that washed over her. ...
Khaled Hosseini: Only a Storyteller
Let's face it: most of us have read the books, and some of us have seen the movie. We've laughed, we've cried... you know the rest. It makes you think that someone so intuitive about his Afghan culture would be a bit preachy about all ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
This time Hosseini takes us into the lives of two Afghan women. Three decades of life inside a burqa. The story starts with Mariam who at 15 is married off to Rasheed, 40, after her mother dies. Her father's wives don't want her in ...

The Kite Runner Buzz 

The Kite Runner (2007)
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. Full Movie.
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
I despised The Kite Runner, so don't ask me why I let a friend talk me into reading the author's second book . . . A Thousand Splendid Suns. I must admit that I am writing this post before completely finishing the novel (I have roughly ...
The Kite Runner (2007) DVDR Replica
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Amir and Hassan make an excellent kite flying team, successfully running down other people's kites. After one competition Hassan is cornered by a group of bullies led by Assef, and is raped, while Amir watches helplessly. ...

 

A Thousand Splendid Suns Buzz 

Hip-hop Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns
If you're familiar with Hosseini's first book The Kite Runner, or the movie of the same name, you already know what to expect; living in Afghanistan is hard. Someone asked me what's one thing that stood out to me about this book and I ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. My review. rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow! What an amazing book!! One of my favorite books is Hosseini's first novel,The Kite Runner. This time Hosseini takes us into the ...
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns. I must admit that I am writing this post before completely finishing the novel (I have roughly 20 pages left) - but it has left me in a reflective and somber mood. Funny . . . that was my horoscope for the day. ...
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
I just finished reading Khalid Al-Hosseni second novel (( A thousand splendid suns )) , I really had to write something about it , This is an amazing book , unforgettable story, Hosseni has away of making Afghanistan very real for me it ...

Khaled Hosseini and Afghanistan Links 

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Learn More About Khaled Hosseini 

Khaled Hosseini () [] (or by English speakersSee inogolo:pronunciation of Khaled Hosseini.(born March 4 1965) is a Tajik http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/569.Khaled_Hosseinihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzwMvYmZ8_Uhttp://www.truveo.com/Khaled-Hosseini-Kite-Runner-A-Thousand-Splendid/id/2729386912

http://www.afgha.com/?q=node/4302http://connect-tajikistan.org/main/?p=95 Khaled Hosseini is an Tajik novelist and physician originally from Afghanistan. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was a bestseller. His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was released on May 22, 2007.http://www.answers.com/topic/khaled-hosseininovelist and physician originally from Afghanistan. Now he is a citizen of the United States. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was a bestseller. His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was released on May 22 2007.

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