![]() ![]() Then back to the Taliban who ruled Afghanistan, then to Pakistan and back to the United States again. Later in the novel the setting moves on to the United States of America, California, San Fransisco. The story takes place in 1962 in Afghanistan, around Kabul to be exact. Hosseini now lives with his wife and two children and still writes some novels. At the age of 9 he was writing poetry and he taught his friend from Iraq how to read and write. Hosseini had always been good at reading and writing. Memories of Afghanistan, especially with the Hazara people led him to writing his first novel. ![]() In 2003 he wrote The Kite Runner, which was an international bestseller, selling more than 10 million copies worldwide. Khaled Hosseini is an American novelist and also physician from Afghanistan. So I decided I wanted to read this for my list for English. It sounded very interesting and luckily I have this book home, but never read it yet. This person had been in Afghanistan and showed me some pictures and told me a little about the story. This book was recommended to me by a good friend of mine, who said it was an amazing book. ![]()
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