Khaled Hosseini was born March 4, 1965, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is a citizen of the United States, where he has lived since he was fifteen years old and is a novelist and physician. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, with the paperback spending 101 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list. In 2007, it was followed by A Thousand Splendid Suns, which spent 21 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback fiction. The two novels have sold more than 38 million copies internationally.
On October 29, 2012, Riverhead Books confirmed that Hosseini’s third novel And the Mountains Echoed would be released on May 21, 2013.
Hosseini said,
“I am forever drawn to family as a recurring central theme of my writing. My earlier novels were at heart tales of fatherhood and motherhood. My new novel is a multi-generational family story as well, this time revolving around brothers and sisters, and the ways in which they love, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for each other. I am thrilled at the chance to share this book with my readers.”
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Sigh… because… it isn’t about what they say it is about. It is about rinindemg these women of their lesser status in the community. And about seeing if they can get the to give up any names of their accomplices.Now that the women are dishonored, their families will take care of the rest of the business of the dishonor and the gummint can walk away clean.The women are probably dead though, once they leave the prison.
I loved The Kite Runner and used to teach it to my Grade 9 students with whom it was always a big hit. I wasn’t as keen on the second novel. I was delighted to see a notice in my local bookstore that his third novel was about to be released.
Finding a sound and reliable eidotr seems to be critical to some novelists’ success at getting the work published, never mind bought and read. This may seem quite obvious but I never knew until I read Rick Gekowski’s _Tolkien’s Gown & Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books_ that there were twelve awful pages about a nuclear disaster at the start of _Lord of the Flies_ and William Golding had to be persuaded several times to delete them, so off-putting was the account. That Jack Kerouac promptly rewrote _On the Road_ after he finished the first draft and then revised it over 6 years, during which he wrote 12 other books. It was still unpublishable after all that. It was a friend called Malcolm Cowley who managed to persuade Kerouac to do some serious pruning (“All the changes I suggested were big ones, mostly omissions.”). The beast was only tame enough to see print after that.
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