Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 4, 1965
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan..
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks..
I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please s….
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poiso….
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own thing and th….
[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me..
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better ….
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath..
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar..
Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends ….
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brush….
James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?.
Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope..
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crum….
You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it..
It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is ….
Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work.….
Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much, or at times, they'r….
You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hu….
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons..