Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads)..

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they….

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on ….

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period..

It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with f….

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into..

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my he….

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things..

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so y….

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me..

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun..

But then it passed, as all things do..

Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I c….

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft..

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread ma….

But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile b….

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. ….

We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened u….

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write f….

If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to t….

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way ….