{"title":"Khaled Hosseini","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1973 Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1976, when Hosseini was 11 years old, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there. They were unable to return to Afghanistan because of the Saur Revolution in which the PDPA communist party seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, a year after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHosseini graduated from Independence High School in San Jose 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 earned his M.D. in 1993. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He practiced medicine for over ten years, until a year and a half after the release of The Kite Runner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHosseini is currently a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has been working to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan through the Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The concept for the foundation was inspired by the trip to Afghanistan that Hosseini made in 2007 with UNHCR.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe lives in Northern California with his wife, Roya, and their two children (Harris and Farah).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-kite-runner","title":"The Kite Runner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003eTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e'Devastating' - Daily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'Heartbreaking' - The Times\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'Unforgettable' - Isabel Allende\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'Haunting' - Independent\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAfghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e“A gripping read and a haunting story of love, loss and betrayal. Guaranteed to move even the hardest heart” –  Independent \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e“Shattering … devastating and inspiring” –  Observer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e“Hosseini is a truly gifted teller of tales … he's not afraid to pull every string in your heart to make it sing” –  The Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e“Rings true with tenderness and truth” –  Daily Mail \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e“A devastating, masterful and painfully honest story of a life crippled by an act of childhood and cowardice and cruelty … It speaks the harrowing truth about the power of evil, personal and political, and intoxicates, like a high-flying kite, with the power of hope” –  Daily Telegraph \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e“Stunning and heartbreaking in its quiet intensity” –  Guardian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e“This is one of those unforgettable stories that stay with you for years. All the great themes of literature and of life are the fabric of this extraordinary novel: love, honour, guilt, fear, redemption … It is so powerful that for a long time after, everything I read seemed bland” –  Isabel Allende \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e“The novel that made Afghanistan the talking-point of every book group” –  Guardian, 50 Books that Defined the Decade \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47707627421944,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"BAM","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/6602\/1624\/files\/The_20Kite_20Runner_2e3e9300-d701-457a-93ed-938e77aeb0c4.jpg?v=1766598694"},{"product_id":"a-thousand-splendid-suns","title":"A Thousand Splendid Suns","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:white\"\u003eMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. 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