Khaled Hosseini, author portrait
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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite RunnerA Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Hosseini is also a U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
The Kite Runner 20th Anniversary Edition
Sea Prayer
And the Mountains Echoed
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner Graphic Novel
A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition

Books

The Kite Runner 20th Anniversary Edition
Sea Prayer
And the Mountains Echoed
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner Graphic Novel
A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition

We celebrate the 20th anniversary of Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner

Dear Educator, Teachers from across the country have written to me in the past year, facing pressure because they teach Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. In some cases, their jobs were being threatened over their decision to bring this seminal book into their classrooms. That’s where the idea for this kit came from: to

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Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

Kabul-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is known for his evocative storytelling deeply rooted in Afghanistan’s history and culture. Like so many of us, he watched Afghanistan fall to the Taliban with profound sadness. In the wake of these events, Penguin Random House has updated the educator’s guides for Hosseini’s

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