Khaled Hosseini Context
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- Created on: 27-04-20 13:44
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- 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' Context
- Early life
- He was born in Kabul in 1965
- On returning to Afghanistan, Hosseini claimed he felt like a tourist, rather than someone returning to their home country
- He described it as looking like a "war zone" despite there not being any conflict for years.
- He also assumed that that a child was a beggar
- On returning to Afghanistan, Hosseini claimed he felt like a tourist, rather than someone returning to their home country
- His father was a diplomat in Paris - he and his family moved there for four years in 1976
- They never ended up returning due to the coup staged by Communists in 1978.
- From December 1979, the Soviets ruled Afghanistan
- They never ended up returning due to the coup staged by Communists in 1978.
- He described his life in Afghanistan as "peaceful" during the 1960s and 70s
- After the coup, the family began to receive news almost on a weekly basis of family members and friends being killed in Afghanistan
- Then, they realised they could not return home to Afghanistan, and applied for asylum in the U.S.
- Khaled was 15 at the time, and led to feelings of displacement for the family
- Then, they realised they could not return home to Afghanistan, and applied for asylum in the U.S.
- in 1980, his family then sought political asylum in the USA
- The family suffered a cultural shock when relocating to California. They couldn't speak English well but eventually adjusted to life in America
- He was born in Kabul in 1965
- Effect on books
- The struggle to adjust to living in America is linked to the identity issues prevalent in Hosseini's novels.
- Said his novels were love stories. The love in his family may have inspired this theme.
- Hosseini's novels focus on familial love and the love in friendships, rather than the notion of romantic love
- Family life is central to Afghan and Middle Eastern culture, along with hospitality
- Personal life
- His mother worked as a teacher and professor of Farsi and history
- Afghan women in professional careers
- He previously worked as a doctor of internal medicine
- Although he enjoyed parts of his work, it wasn't his passion; writing was. However, the existing stigma among immigrant families was that writing was seen as more of a hobby than a livelihood.
- His mother worked as a teacher and professor of Farsi and history
- Humanitarian work
- Hosseini has his own organisation dedicated to helping people in Afghanistan - particularly the dispossessed and the marginalised.
- Especially women, children and the poor
- Giving grants for women to receive an education in learning centres and work prospects in Afghanistan
- Created homeless shelters to combat homelessness in Afghanistan
- Gave grants to NGOs to schemes to prevent child exploitation
- Especially women, children and the poor
- Hosseini has his own organisation dedicated to helping people in Afghanistan - particularly the dispossessed and the marginalised.
- Early life
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