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| Title | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| The Kite Runner | 6 | |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | 1 |
Khaled Hosseini (1965 - )
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"The Kite Runner" is one of the best written most engagin books that I have ever read.
miss_tibbles June 30th, 2007 01:58 PM PST
I loved "The Kite Runner". It's beautifully written and the characters are very well-developed. It's a fantastic book and should be read by everyone.
However, I've just read "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and I can honestly say that it's even better! So start with either one but make sure you read the other one too.
drunken dime January 6th, 2008 01:11 PM PST
I'm not voting, because I haven't read "A Thousand Splendid Suns" so I can't say that "The Kite Runner" is the better of the two. What I can say is that "The Kite Runner" is very good.
indygo88 July 11th, 2008 03:22 PM PST
I personally preferred "The Kite Runner" over "A Thousand Splendid Suns", but I've heard others say just the opposite. Regardless, both books are very well written and emotionally-charged.
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Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan to a family of Kizilbash descent. His father was involved with the Afghan Foreign Ministry, and his mother was a teacher at a large girls high school in Kabul. In 1970, the Foreign Ministry sent his family, along with his three siblings, to Paris, France, where his father worked for the Afghan embassy. In 1973, Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, where, in July of that year, Hosseini's youngest brother was born. This was the same time Afghan power changed hands through a bloodless coup.
In 1976, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris and moved the family there. They chose not to return to Afghanistan because communists had seized power through a bloody coup. Instead, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California. Having left Afghanistan with only the clothes on their back, they were forced to subsist on welfare and food stamps for a brief period.
Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1993. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He continues to practice medicine.
Bryan February 23rd, 2006 05:44 PM PST