Khaled Hosseini

1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic by 0 people | Log in to rate

Ranked #6,765 in Arts , #171,959 overall

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: $17.13 (as of 07/06/2009)Buy Now

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: $9.75 (as of 07/06/2009)Buy Now

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: $12.99 (as of 07/06/2009)Buy Now

The movie of the book (see above)

The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns 

Loading poll. Please Wait...

Khaled Hosseini Clips 


Khaled Hosseini discusses A Thousand Splendid Suns

Runtime: 6:07
79096 views
10 Comments:


Khaled Hosseini at Booksmith

Runtime: 4:35
7078 views
10 Comments:


Stephen Colbert "arguing" with Khaled Hosseini on BookTV

Runtime: 3:18
244993 views
10 Comments:


Khaled Hosseini-Kite Runner author-visits Darfur Refugees

Runtime: 6:21
4884 views
3 Comments:


Khaled Hosseini -- Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns

Runtime: 6:03
31254 views
10 Comments:


Khaled Hosseini Interviewed On KVOS TV

Runtime: 3:32
10640 views
10 Comments:


The Kite Runner Movie Trailer

Runtime: 1:55
86721 views
10 Comments:


The Kite Runner Video

Runtime: 4:20
67638 views
10 Comments:


The Kite Runner

Runtime: 1:47
59979 views
10 Comments:

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 

Loading Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
eBay

Afghanistan in Pictures 

Khaled Hosseini's Blog 

Loading Fetching RSS feed... please stand by

Khaled Hosseini Audiobooks 

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009) Buy Now

The Kite Runner

Amazon Price: $26.37 (as of 07/06/2009) Buy Now

More Khahled Hosseini Clips 


The Kite Runner author visits Afghanistan

Runtime: 1:50
8117 views
2 Comments:


the Kite Runner trailer-Kashgar ( Uyghur)

Runtime: 1:55
15450 views
10 Comments:


Reel Geezers - The Kite Runner

Runtime: 7:05
12945 views
10 Comments:


ALD Live - A Thousand Splendid Suns Book Review

Runtime: 3:14
2882 views
10 Comments:


A Thousand Splendid Suns

Runtime: 4:28
4839 views
10 Comments:


The Kite Runner at Mill Valley Film Festival

Runtime: 2:29
10454 views
10 Comments:


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

Runtime: 1:48
47858 views
10 Comments:


The Kite Runner

Runtime: 2:38
1573 views
1 Comments:

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.

Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 07/06/2009) Buy Now

Khaled Hosseini Buzz 

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini ISBN: 0-385-66007-3 The Kite Runner is a fictional book written by Khaled Hosseini. It is available for purchase from http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0385660073. This book is our second Book Club book for the ...
Author Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated ...
What book(s) do you believe should be added to high school ...
Novels such as "Abundance," "Gone With The Wind," and Khaled Hosseini's novels provide historical and modern insight into events that students can easily feel detached from, broadening their education of the world, whereas "Animal Farm" ...
Emerald: Article Request - Afghanistan and multiculturalism in ...
Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to frame Khaled Hosseini's novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , as literature to expand and enhance the American secondary curriculum with multicultural themes based on ...

The Kite Runner Buzz 

The Kite Runner: Amazon.co.uk: Khaled Hosseini: Books
The Kite Runner is a first novel of unusual generosity, honesty and compassion' Independent 'The shattering first novel by Khaled Hosseini a rich and soul-searching narrative a sharp, unforgettable taste of the trauma and tumult ...
The Kite Runner
"There is a way to be good again.? Based one on of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, THE KITE RUNNER is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and.
The Kite Runner. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Ever since I saw the book at Starbucks, I have been waiting for a shot to use the title. So there, Happy Friday! :P.
The Kite Runner « wakinghour.net
This foreign film is based on Khaled Hosseini's famed novel, ?The Kite Runner?. I have not read the book, but judging from the movie, I can imagine how satisfying the reading experience must be. The movie centers on the lives of two ...

 

A Thousand Splendid Suns Buzz 

A Thousand Splendid Suns on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
[Tâ??? & ???t?? ?? ??] for the first time I've started reading an English novel about a story happend in Afghanistan which is Extraordinary PERFECT !!! i have not finished it yet but its actually widely interesting it plays with ur ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns | New York Public Library
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is one of my favorite books. While I was aware of the plight of women in places like Afghanistan from watching the news or reading articles in the newspapers, I had never fully realized the ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | Gauchotexts Blog
Saving you time and money in purchasing new and used books, text books, magazines, children books, audio books, and multimedia using a powerful price comparison engine.
A Thousand Splendid Suns: Questions for Discussion | New York ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns starts with a term of abuse thrown at one of the protagonists ? Mariam ? by her mother: "harami." The word means illegitimate and would be deeply hurtful to someone from a culture that prizes patriarchy. ...

Khaled Hosseini and Afghanistan Links 

Khaled Hosseini
Author's home page
Red Room
Author Profile
Khaled Hosseini - Wikiquote
Khaled Hosseini Quotes
Khaled Hosseini IMDb
Writer: The Kite Runner. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites.
Afghanistan Online
Afghanistan Online provides updated news and information on Afghan culture, history, politics, society, languages, sports, publications, communities, economy, and much more. The site also has a photo gallery, chat room, discussion board, and an online Kabul Museum.

Learn More About Khaled Hosseini 

Khaled Hosseini ( , or by English speakersSee inogolo:pronunciation of Khaled Hosseini.) (born March 4, 1965) is a novelist and physician from Afghanistan. He is currently living in the United States, where he is a citizen. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling in more than 10 million copies worldwide.[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3721678.ece]

His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was released on May 22, 2007.Khaled Hosseini: Information and Much More from Answers.com In 2008, the book was the bestselling novel in the UK (as of April 11, 2008), with more than 700,000 copies sold.[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3721678.ece]

Further Reading On Afghanistan 

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan by Christina Lamb

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan by Christina Lamb

Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban E more...0 points

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life In more...0 points

Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts

Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts

"It took me a long time and most of the world more...0 points

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson

Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Debor more...0 points

The Places In Between by Rory Stewart

The Places In Between by Rory Stewart

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghani more...0 points

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

To what extent did America's best intelligence ana more...0 points

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

For more than twenty years, Sultan Khan has defied more...0 points

The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes

The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes

A National Public Radio reporter covering the last more...0 points

Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Columbia/Hurst) by Antonio Giustozzi

Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Columbia/Hurst) by Antonio Giustozzi

Since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, more...0 points

Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban by Stephen Tanner

Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban by Stephen Tanner

The only complete single-volume military history o more...0 points

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

The Taliban remain one of the most elusive forces more...0 points

Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics by Martin Ewans

Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics by Martin Ewans

A fascinating chronicle of a nation's turbulent h more...0 points

Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier by Joel Hafvenstein

Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier by Joel Hafvenstein

A young American working on the brutal fault line more...0 points

The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this e more...0 points

Lonely Planet Afghanistan (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) by Paul Clammer

Lonely Planet Afghanistan (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) by Paul Clammer

Discover Afghanistan Blink as you emerge from the more...0 points

Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide by Bijan Omrani, Matthew Leeming

Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide by Bijan Omrani, Matthew Leeming

Thanks to 20 years of civil war and its associatio more...0 points

Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters by Ali Ahmad Jalali

Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters by Ali Ahmad Jalali

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, more...0 points

The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik

The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik

Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was consid more...0 points

Kabul by M. E. Hirsh

Kabul by M. E. Hirsh

Modern events sometime demand the reissue of a boo more...0 points

The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir by Farah Ahmedi

The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir by Farah Ahmedi

Farah Ahmedi's "poignant tale of survival&quo more...0 points

Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by John Follain, Rita Cristofari

Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by John Follain, Rita Cristofari

Kabul was always more beautiful in the snow. Eve more...0 points

MY FORBIDDEN FACE: GROWING UP UNDER THE TALIBAN: A YOUNG WOMAN'S STORY by Latifa

MY FORBIDDEN FACE: GROWING UP UNDER THE TALIBAN: A YOUNG WOMAN'S STORY by Latifa

Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in more...0 points

Building a New Afghanistan

Building a New Afghanistan

Given resumed Taliban power and attacks, Afghanist more...0 points

Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afgha more...0 points

Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan by Nick B. Mills

Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan by Nick B. Mills

The untold story of Hamid Karzai's dramatic rise t more...0 points

Winter in Kandahar by Steven E. Wilson

Winter in Kandahar by Steven E. Wilson

AFGHANISTAN- the name conjures images of rugged mo more...0 points

Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Sulima and Hala, Batya Swift Yasgur

Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Sulima and Hala, Batya Swift Yasgur

Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa "Whenever more...0 points

A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan by Nelofer Pazira

A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan by Nelofer Pazira

Written with compassion, intelligence and insight, more...0 points

The Moonlit Cage: A Novel by Linda Holeman

The Moonlit Cage: A Novel by Linda Holeman

Daryâ's simple life in mid-nineteenth-century Afg more...0 points

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre

The riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic more...0 points

Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin

Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin

Cut adrift after the collapse of the Soviet Union, more...0 points

Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan by Melody Ermachild Chavis

Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan by Melody Ermachild Chavis

The unforgettable story of how one woman dared to more...0 points

Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Frank L. Holt

Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Frank L. Holt

What George W. Bush called the "first war of more...0 points

Steve Mccurry: In the Shadow of Mountains by Steve McCurry, Kerry William Purcell

Steve Mccurry: In the Shadow of Mountains by Steve McCurry, Kerry William Purcell

IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNTAINS is a new collection of more...0 points

Embroidery from Afghanistan (Fabric Folios) by Sheila Paine

Embroidery from Afghanistan (Fabric Folios) by Sheila Paine

Embroidery from Afghanistan is varied, rich, and s more...0 points

Afghanistan: Chronotopia: Landscapes of the Destruction of Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Chronotopia: Landscapes of the Destruction of Afghanistan

Afghanistan has been ravaged by war for more than more...0 points

Memories of Afghanistan by M. H. Anwar

Memories of Afghanistan by M. H. Anwar

"Dr. M. H. Anwar's fascinating memoir. . . co more...0 points

Tiny Dancer: The Incredible True Story of a Young Burn Victim's Journey from Afghanistan by Anthony Flacco

Tiny Dancer: The Incredible True Story of a Young Burn Victim's Journey from Afghanistan by Anthony Flacco

The astonishing story of a brave little girl from more...0 points

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot

Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and pa more...0 points

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary

The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed more...0 points

Afghan Cooking 

Comments 

Like this lens? Want to share your feedback, or just give a thumbs up? Be the first to submit a blurb!

Other Lenses You Might Enjoy