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In 1970, Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1973, Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year. In 1976, when Hosseini was 11 years old, his father secured a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there. [18]
Khaled Hosseini, 2007. Khaled Hosseini was born in Afghanistan but left the country in 1976 at the age of 11, eventually moving to the United States where he worked as a doctor. He wrote his first novel, The Kite Runner, in 2003 and became a full-time writer a year and a half later. He published his second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, in ...
Khaled Hosseini, 2007. Khaled Hosseini lived and worked as a medical internist at Kaiser Hospital in Mountain View, California for several years before publishing The Kite Runner. [3] [6] [7] In 1999, Hosseini learned through a news report that the Taliban had banned kite flying in Afghanistan, [8] a restriction he found particularly cruel. [9]
Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" has been pulled from shelves in more than a dozen Iowa school districts. The novel is a story of family and friendship set against the history of Afghanistan ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner. Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a relatively privileged life, but her ...
Jalal Hosseini, Iranian footballer; Kamil al-Husayni, Palestinian judge (al-Husayni family) Karim al-Hussayni, Imam of the Ismaili Muslims and the fourth Aga Khan; Khaled Hosseini, American novelist and physician; Majid Hosseini (born 1996), Iranian footballer; Malek Hosseini (born 1968), an Iranian philosopher; Mansoor Hosseini, Swedish composer
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