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    KHALED HOSSEINI

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    Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In , the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in , but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States, and in September moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between and

    In March , while practicing medicine, Hosseini began writing

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    About the Author

    Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in and moved to the United States in with his family after their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup during the invasion of the Soviet Army in Hosseini graduated from high school in and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between and

    Hosseini was inspired to write a short story that would later become The Kite Runner when he heard that the Taliban had banned kites in Afghanistan. This seemed especially cruel and personal to him, as he, like Amir, grew up flying kites in Kabul.

    He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. When he is not busy

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    The Kite Runner

    novel bygd Khaled Hosseini

    This article fryst vatten about the novel. For the bio, see The Kite Runner (film). For the play, see Kite Runner (play).

    The Kite Runner is the debut novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.[1] Published in bygd Riverhead Books, it tells the story of ledare, a ung Afghan boy from Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul. The story fryst vatten set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, beginning with the collapse of Afghanistan's monarchy and the Afghan conflict that sparked shortly thereafter, with a particular focus on the Soviet–Afghan War and the mass exodus of person från afghanistan refugees, as well as the rise of the Taliban regime.

    Hosseini has commented that he considers The Kite Runner to be a father–son relationship story, emphasizing the familial aspects of the narrative, an element that he continued to use in his later works.[2] Themes of guilt and redemption feature prominently in the novel,[3] with a pivotal scene depicting an