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Khaled Hosseini

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born
in Kabul, Afghanistan
March 04, 1965

gender
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Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. 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, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there. They were unable to return to Afghanistan because of the Saur Revolution in which the PDPA communist party seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, a year after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.
Hosseini graduated from Independence Hi...more


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UNHCR's Shelter Program in Afghanistan
Dear Readers:Thank you for letters of support and encouragement. As ever, I cherish and appreciate them immensely.Well it appears that The Khaled Hosseini Foundation is up and running. We had our first public event to raise funds for the foundation on April 25th. My good friends Michael and Carolyn Bealmear, whom I have known through Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) fundraising, arr... Read more of this blog post »
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Khaled Hosseini's Books

Average rating: 4.21 · 1,275,506 ratings · 67,854 reviews · 14 distinct works · Similar authors
The Kite Runner
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 880,242 ratings — published 2003 — 169 editions
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 389,620 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,154 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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The Kite Runner & A Thousan...
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 1,256 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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And the Mountains Echoed
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions
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Bookclub in a Box Discusses...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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I cieli di Kabul : interviste
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Drageløberen
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009
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Author appearance, May 28, 2013 07:00PM — 2 people invited
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Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini
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“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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