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Featured Works
Khaled's Latest Blogs
May.11.2011 - 11:29 am
Dear Friends,
In recent weeks I have been asked to comment on questions and controversies surrounding Greg Mortenson (author of Three Cups of Tea) and the Central Asia...
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Feb.20.2009 - 2:04 pm
"A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive."
This is the motto of the Kabul Museum, recently printed in bold letters on a banner above the entrance. In that...
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Jan.29.2008 - 11:38 am
Today is the day that we, as a community of writers, show our support and encouragement for one of our own, Patry Francis, author of The Liar's Diary. I remember how thrilled I...
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Dec.03.2007 - 11:00 am
I write in the very early hours of the morning. Typically I get up at around 4 a.m., have cereal, read the San Francisco Chronicle, and heat up some black coffee. Then I head to...
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Published Reviews
Aug.03.2003
Published by The New York Times
This powerful first novel tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini’s privileged young narrator, who comes of...
About Khaled
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and History at a large high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Afghan Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to...