November Issue
“If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community”
&#; Khalid Hosseini
Returning to Afghanistan for the first time this year after 27 years in exile in America, Khaled Hosseini talks of Kabul in its heyday. His debut novel, The Kite Runner, explores the powerful relationship between a father and son during the Afghan monarchy and his hopes for a peaceful post-Taliban Afghanistan.
Q: In The Kite Runner, do you create characters and events that are based on personal recollections or is the story purely fictional?
A: The story line of my novel is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. However, there certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. Probably the passages most resembling my own life are the ones in the US, with Amir and Baba trying to build a new life for themselves. I, too, came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture. My father and I did work for a wh
Traumsammler
Like diamonds and roses hidden under bomb rubble, this is a story of intense beauty and strength buried under the surface of the cruel and capricious life imposed upon two Afghani women.
She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.Staggeringly beautiful and deep and rich and sad and frightening and infuriating. There’s a lot I want to say about this book and so I cry your pardon if this review is a bit of a rambler. You should definitely read this book. I’ll probably repeat this again, but I want to make sure I don’t forget to say it. Buy the book and read it.
I love good historical fiction, especially when set in places and/or periods of which I am not very familiar. Afghanistan certainly fit that description, which makes me feel a significant amount of personal shame given how intertwined the country has been with the history of the U.S. over the
In , Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini exploded on the literary scene with his novel “The Kite Runner,” about a friendship between two boys in war-torn Afghanistan. The book sold more than 4 million copies and continues to sell strongly in paperback. His engrossing, second novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” (Riverhead, $26), has also shot to the top of the national best-seller lists.
In the new book, Hosseini covers 35 years in Afghanistan’s turbulent, tragic history through the eyes of Mariam and Laila, the two abused wives of a Kabul shoemaker.
Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy man. After her mother’s suicide in the mids, the year-old girl is married to Rasheed, a man 30 years older who starts beating her after they find she cannot bear children. For 19 years, she lives alone with Rasheed, forced to wear the burqa, the head-to-toe covering, and suffers his abuse as Afghanistan undergoes Soviet occupation and genocidal civil war.
In , Rasheed marries the war orphan Laila, also 15 years old. The two women are at first adversaries, but then find a bond against their hateful husband. As the country descends into the hell
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini is an American novelist who was born in Afghanistan in Although he is a physician also, his fame resides in the publication of two remarkable novels “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns”. After graduation, Hosseini joined the medical profession in California. However, after the successful publication of “The Kite Runner”, which is set in Afghan society, he left medicine to pursue his writing career.
A major feature of Hosseini’s novels is a vivid representation of his native land, Afghanistan. He shapes his protagonists either as submissive women characters facing patriarchal domination in the Afghan life, or people suffering from the repressive strategies of the state and society. His voice can be regarded as a representative of the Afghan culture. He highlights the traditional values and notions of Afghan society by making them known to the modern world.
A Short Biography of Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini was born on 4 March in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father, Nasser Hosseini, worked as a diplomat in the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hosseini’s mother, supposedly from a Mohammadzai family, was a teacher of history and Persia
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