Duizend zonnen khaled hosseini biography

Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini is famous for his two best-selling novels about Afghanistan, The Kite Runner () and A Thousand Splendid Suns ().

The novels depict events in the recent history of Afghanistan and have drawn the interest of American readers wanting to know more about the country invaded by the United States in

Khaled Hosseini was born March 4, , in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan.

He is the oldest of five children. Hosseini’s mother was a literature and history teacher at a high school in Kabul.

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She taught Hosseini to love classical Persian poetry. His father worked for the foreign ministry, and in the s, the family lived for a time in Tehran, Iran and in Paris.

The family was at home in Kabul in when King Zahir Shah was overthrown.

In and , as the communists took over Afghanistan and the Soviet Union invaded, Hosseini’s family was in Paris. Rather than return home to a country at