Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseiniis an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage". He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner he retired from medicine to write full-time...
NationalityAfghani
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 March 1965
CityKabul, Afghanistan
You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
You can not stop you from being who you are.
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.
I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.
Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.