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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 likens to an arranged marriage for him. He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, following the success of The Kite Runner, he decided to become a full-time writer. （Khaled Hosseini） About the author His father worked as a diplomat, and when he was 11 years old, the family moved to France; four years later, they applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a citizen. Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2003 at the age of 38, where he felt like a tourist in his own country. In interviews about the experience, he admitted to sometimes feeling survivors guilt for having been able to leave the country before the Soviet invasion and subsequent wars. About the author All three of his novels became bestsellers, with The Kite Runner spending 101 weeks on the bestseller list as a paperback.In 2007, The Kite Runner was followed by A Thousand Splendid Suns, which has spent 21 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and 49 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction . The two novels have sold more than 38 million copies internationally. About the author The novel centers around the friendship between Mariam and Laila. It is split into four parts, with a focus on Mariam in the first part, continuing with Laila in the second, the relationship between the two women in the third part and Lailas life with Tariq in part four, which is also the only part written in the present tense. Summary Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariams unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, th