The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner tells a sweeping story of family, love, and friendship against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, bringing to mind the large canvases of the Russian writers of the nineteenth century. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, and as the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation - a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. When he is not busy writing books, he also serves as a U.S. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. This seemed especially cruel and personal to him, as he, like Amir, grew up flying kites in Kabul. 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. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between 19. The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in 1993. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1988.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965 and moved to the United States in 1980 with his family after their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup during the invasion of the Soviet Army in 1978. A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers.Internal Migration and Internally Displaced Peoples.

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