Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likens to "an arranged marriage" for him. He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, ...
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction
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Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction
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The Kite Runner
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[on his novel 'And the Mountains Echoes'] Fiction accomplishes things that the writer probably doesn't intend - it has a life and a significance beyond what the writer wanted. I could say I write my books so that people understand Afghanistan better, but it wouldn't be true. I write because I love these characters. A single image began this book: a man walking across the desert, pulling a Red Radio wagon behind him with a little girl inside and a boy following them. I had to figure out who these people were and what was happening.
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Afghan novelist, best known for his bestselling debut "The Kite Runner" (2003).
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His father worked for the Afghanistan Foreign Ministery, his mother was a teacher.
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Completed his residency in internal medicine at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (1993).
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