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Khaled Hosseini

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 likened to "an arranged marriage." He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner he retired from medicine to write full-time.
years of life: 4 March 1965 present

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nenadovicsofija3has quoted2 years ago
Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky.
zelenetskacomhas quoted2 years ago
The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born
zelenetskacomhas quoted2 years ago
The end, the official end, would come first in April 1978 with the communist coup d’état, and then in December 1979, when Russian tanks would roll into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting.

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    IM FUCKING SOBBING I LOOK LIKE SHIT I CRIED 8 TIMES THIS DAY AND I HAVEN'T SLEPT FOR 2 DAYS AS IM WRITING THIS I'M BALLING MY EYES OUT I WILL NEVER RECOVER.

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