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A Thousand Splendid Suns, is a novel that depicts how harsh life can be in other cultures, and is based on the hometown of the author where the culture is seen very differently and consists of many hardships and bravery. Khaled Hosseini engages his readers through many emotions when writing his novels and connects closely to his readers by writings novels on issues that many of us feel a connection too, such as the treatment of women. For example Khaled describes the fear of women, in terms of their roles to their husbands “Nana had told her what husbands did to their wives. It was the thought of these intimacies in particular, which she imagined as painful acts of perversity, that filled her with dread and made her break out in a sweat” (Hosseini …show more content…

Khaled spent a majority of his childhood in Afghanistan until he turned 11 where he moved to Paris due to being relocated by the Foreign Ministry because of the invasion of the Soviet Union that ruined their family’s homeland. Their family was then given asylum in the United States and in September 1980 they moved to San Jose, California, where his career as a writer would take off (“Biography”). After completing high school, Hosseini achieved a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Santa Clara University in 1988. He then enrolled in the University of California, San Diego and earned a medical degree in 1993. After he gained his degree he started his residency from 1996 to 2004 and during this time he started writing his first novel in May 2001 called the Kite Runner. Hosseni was inspired by writing ever since he was in grade school and upon his release of his first novel; it was an international bestseller and a classic. Hosseni later on starts a program called the “The Khaled Hosseini Foundation” which assists the people of Afghanistan. Hosseni is definitely a very inspired author through the works of his novels and the devotion he has made to his people and readers from his past experiences. He came up from a poor country and has used much of his wealth to give back on

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