A Thousand Splendid Suns Research Paper

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To start it off, my name is Khaled Hosseini and I am the author of the New York Times Bestselling novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”. As an Afghan-American author, I grew fond of American movies and flying kites as a child. Coming from Kabul, Afghanistan and as the oldest of five children, I grew up with a loving family and in comfortable life. This was before the Foreign Ministry migrated our family to Paris and graduated high school. In that time, I put my personal aspirations of becoming a writer on hold, and pursued a career in medicine. Eventually, I returned to Northern California in 1999 and joined a branch of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. At this time, I decided to begin writing short stories and was lucky as some are published