In addition to writing novels, he has expressed interest in writing a screenplay, a stage play, and more short stories. Previous About The Kite Runner. Next Themes in The Kite Runner. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? You mentioned the Farsi language. Could you explain for us what languages are spoken in Afghanistan and which ones you grew up with? Khaled Hosseini: Afghanistan is a kaleidoscope of different ethnicities, tribes, sub-tribes, families and so on. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between and In March , while practicing medicine, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner , which was published by Riverhead Books in When a peasant's beloved son is taken by the creature, he sets out to rescue his child, knowing he will most likely be killed for his audacity.
Instead, the div shows him his son playing happily with other children. The father has to decide whether to leave his boy there — happy and provided for — or to take him back to a harrowing and potentially short life in a village blighted by droughts.
Despondent, he accuses the div of cruelty. It replies: "When you have lived as long as I have, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour. Hosseini is 48 — not exactly Methuselan then, but old enough to look back on his first two novels and see a different writer: a writer for whom cruelty and benevolence were very much two different colours. But if I were given a red pen now and I went back … I'd take that thing apart.
He was similarly exacting with this novel's ending. It ends with an act of mercy: the div gives the man a potion that erases his memory, and with it, the pain of having lost his son. It's this amazing gift — to treasure all those things that matter to us the most, that form our identity.
But it's also very cruel because we relive those parts of our lives that are so painful. I could see that if the reunion were to occur, it would occur on these terms and it wouldn't be the reunion we'd expect and perhaps the one we want. Among Hosseini's most compelling creations in the new novel is Nila Wahdati, an alcoholic poet. Hosseini was born in Kabul in , the first child of his diplomat father and teacher mother.
Nila came, he says, from the kind of parties he remembers his parents throwing while he was a teenager in the 70s, when a certain stratum of Kabul's middle class was undergoing Westernisation.
Drinking freely, smoking. Nila is a creation from my memory of that kind of woman from that time and that place. It was, however, a place that he left when he was just 11 years old. His father's work took them to Paris, and then, when the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan prevented them from returning home, they sought political asylum in the United States and settled in California.
Hosseini, aged 15, was plunged into a San Jose high school, speaking no English. I think it was a lot worse for my parents. My dad was a diplomat and my mum vice-principal of a high school and now she's a waitress at Denny's, working the graveyard shift, and my dad is a driving instructor.
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