Khaled Hossein

Khaled Hossein

04-Mar-1965


Afghanistan


Novelist

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a Afghan counterpart and his mother taught Farsi and history at Kabul High School. In 1976, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They had planned to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then their country had witnessed the Communist occupation and the invasion of the Soviet army. Hosseinis sought and granted asylum in the United States, and in September 1980 they moved to San Jose, California. 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 graduated with a doctorate in 1993. He graduated from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and was a practitioner between 1996 and 2004.

QUOTES BY Khaled Hossein


It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

For you, a thousand times over

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

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