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1、杨莉莉 英语 12-03 541208010324The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965) is a novelist and physician originally from Afghanistan. He is currently living in the United States, where he is a citizen. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling in more than 12 mi
2、llion copies worldwide. His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was released on May 22, 2007. In 2008, the book was the bestselling novel in the UK (as of April 11, 2008), with more than 700,000 copies sold.Hosseini was born in Kabul where his father worked for the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry. In 197
3、0, Hosseini and his family moved to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan. In 1973, Hosseinis family returned to Kabul, and Hosseinis youngest brother was born in July of that year.In 1976, Hosseinis father obtained a job in Paris, France and moved the family there. Th
4、ey chose not to return to Afghanistan because PDPA had seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.Hosseini graduated from Independence High School in San Jose in 1984 and enroll
5、ed at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelors 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 Ang
6、eles in 1996. He practiced medicine until a year and a half after the release of The Kite Runner.杨莉莉 英语 12-03 541208010324Hosseini is currently a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He lives in Northern California with his wife, Roya, and their two children.
7、When Khaled Hosseini was a child, he read a great deal of Persian poetry as well as Persian translations of novels ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer series. Hosseinis memories of peaceful pre-Soviet era Afghanistan, I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanis
8、tan as well as his personal experiences with Afghanistans Hazara people, led to the writing of his first novel, The Kite Runner. One Hazara man, named Hossein Khan, worked for the Hosseinis when they were living in Iran. When Khaled Hosseini was in third grade, he taught Khan to read and write. Alth
9、ough his relationship with Hossein Khan was brief and rather formal, Hosseinis fond memories of this relationship served as an inspiration for the relationship between Hassan and Amir in The Kite Runner.The novel was the number three best seller for 2005 in the United States, according to Nielsen Bo
10、okScan. The Kite Runner was also produced as an audiobook read by the author. The Kite Runner has been adapted into a film of the same name released in December, 2007.Hosseinis second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns (ISBN 1-59448-950-5), the story of two women of Afghanistan, Mariam and Laila, whose
11、 lives become entwined, was released by Riverhead Books on May 22, 2007, simultaneous with the Simon & Schuster audiobook. Movie rights have been acquired by producer Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures.Here is how the story goes.杨莉莉 英语 12-03 541208010324Amir lives with his father, in Kabul, Afghanist
12、an. His mother, who had died during his birth, had left behind a collection of Sufi literature. From early childhood, Amir likes to read stories from her books to his servant and playmate, Hassan. While Amir is privileged and able to go to school, Hassan is busy with housework. However, in their fre
13、e time they are good friends. To commemorate these happy times, Amir carves their names on a pomegranate tree.Living in a single-parent home, Amir yearns for his fathers attention and gets jealous of Hassan when his father bestows favors on Hassan and arranged a cosmetic surgery for his harelip. Ami
14、rs desire for his fathers affection also stems from his fathers indifference toward his sons interest in books. When it is time for the local kite-flying contest, Amir gets excited because he knows that his father will be watching him with genuine interest.Hassan is excited about the contest, too, a
15、nd after Amir wins, Hassan runs and catches the prizewinning kite for his friend. Unfortunately, the neighborhood bully, Assef, and his companions stop Hassan and demand the kite from him. Hassan does not surrender the kite and is physically assaulted and raped by Assef. Amir sees the assault but, f
16、earing confrontation with the bully, does nothingan act of betrayal that will affect Amir into adulthood and forever change his relationship with Hassan.Both Amir and Hassan know the social gap that defines their identities. In Afghan culture, Amir is a Pashtun and Hassan is a Hazara, which makes him a servant. Religious difference also sets them apart, even though they both are Muslim: Amir is Sunni, and Hassan is Shia. Pashtuns, the majority ethnic group in Afghanist
