Khaled Hosseini between the kite, medicine and the heavy stories of Afghanistan
From his words he could smell you on freshly baked Naan. They hear the music on the radio, the dust on the roads is felt. And, too often, the suffering of the most innocent.
| Khaled Hosseini is an American-Afghan writer. He is best known for his two novels-« Kite Hunter » and « Thousands of Shining Suns », which are often placed by critics and the audience as one of the best works published after the beginning of the 21st century. |
Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is the largest of five children in the family. His father Nasser is a diplomat and his mother is a Farsi teacher.
Because of his family, Hosseini grows in a privileged position, as he admits. He describes his childhood as happy, spent in Kabul – a « cosmopolitan city », which is gradually evolving.
In the city, he often plays with kite with her cousins, but he also reads and writes.
| « I started writing as a kid in Kabul, at 8-9. One of the first short stories I wrote, even later entered the Kite Hunter, » Hossey recalls. |
As Hosseini grows, the family lives abroad – first in Tehran and later in Paris.
In the late 1970s, however, everything changed with the April Revolution, which came just a few years after the bloodless coup of Mohammed Daud Kahn in 1973, followed by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the civil wars between the Mujahidin factions, the establishment of the Taliban regime, and today and today and the reversing of the Taliban.
All this leads to the escape of millions of Afghans from the country and turning it into one of the most deadly and frequent places on the planet.
The suffering that Afghans have gone through during these years are a key part of Hossey’s works.
He himself became a political emigrant after the start of the Soviet invasion. Then his family seeks refuge in the United States and receives it. But although he is far from his native Kabul, Hosseini listens to the stories of loved ones and familiar about what is happening in Afghanistan.
« Almost everyone who was associated with the previous regime or the royal family was persecuted, imprisoned, killed or just disappeared, » he later said in an interview with Achievement.
In the United States, Hosseini and his family live in California. He is a scholarly loving and after graduating from high school, enrolled to study biology at the University of Santa Clara, and later acquired a medical qualification from the University of California.
Khaled Hosseini writes a third novel about Afghanistan
He himself says that medicine is coming « as the cliché for most migrants » who make him think of a profession that he can endure.
| Despite the heavy craft, Hossey never stops writing. He calls this « personal passion », but never imagines he can become a writer. In the end, it is decided on a bolder step – an entire novel that begins in 2001. |
In the end, in 2003, the « kite hunter » graduated. The history of it covers the period since the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan in 1973 to the first fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Immediately after the book was released, things do not seem promising.
« I went to a public reading. They had prepared 120 chairs, but there was only one person. All this could crush you, » Hosseini told TV Has and were.
In the end, however, the novel gained worldwide popularity and became the best-selling in the United States in 2005. The « Kite Hunter » enters as part of compulsory literature in schools and universities, and Hossey became the author-star.
Some time after the book appears on the market, Hosseini continues with his medical practice.
| « At one point, it became a danger to human health. While in 20 minutes I had to examine their heart, the thyroid gland and check for diabetes, in 15 of them we discussed the story of the book and signed books about Uncle Joe, » Hosseini said in an interview with Seth Meyars. |
Shortly after its publication, the book also received a movie adaptation.
In 2007, his second, also an extremely successful novel – « Thousands of Shining Suns, » appeared. He follows almost the same period, but this time from the perspective of young girls who have to bear the atrocities of the regime and the tingling of women in Afghanistan.
Rejected by over 30 agencies: Khaled Hosseini talks about the « kite hunter »
Later, « A mountains echoed » and « Prayer to the Sea » appear. The second book was inspired by the world -famous photo of two -year -old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdy, filmed after his drowning in the Mediterranean in 2015.
Hosseini provides all the funds he receives from the sales of the book to the UN Refugee Agency. He is also a goodwill ambassador to the organization and even leads humanitarian missions in Afghanistan. He later established a foundation in his own name, which provides assistance to Afghans.
« Sometimes we talk about refugees in a way that we don’t help them a lot-like a monolithic group that has huge needs. In fact, the fact is that refugees are fundamental threads for American history. I think America is better, stronger and richer thanks to refugees, not despite them, » Hossey says.
