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. He is A U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
Praise for The Kite Runner (the novel) :
"[A] powerful first novel... political events, even as dramatic as
the ones that are presented in The Kite Runner, are only a
part of this story. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
gives us a vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his
people have been struggling to triumph over the forces of
violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today."—The New
York Times Book Review
"A beautiful novel... This unusually eloquent story is also about
the fragile relationship between fathers and sons, humans and their
gods, men and their countries. Loyalty and blood are the ties that
bind their stories into one of the most lyrical, moving and
unexpected books this year." --The Denver Post
"A marvelous first novel... the story of two young boys who are
friends in Afghanistan, and an incredible story of the culture.
It's an old-fashioned kind of novel that really sweeps you away."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"This extraordinary novel locates the personal struggles of
everyday people in the terrible sweep of history." --People
"A moving portrait of modern Afghanistan." —Entertainment
Weekly"A powerful book...no frills, no nonsense, just hard, spare
prose...an intimate account of family and friendship, betrayal and
salvation that requires no atlas or translation to engage and
enlighten us. Parts of The Kite Runner are raw and
excruciating to read, yet the book in its entirety is lovingly
written."—The Washington Post Book World
"An astonishing, powerful book."—Diane Sawyer
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