books by Khaled Hosseini?

Question

I have read The Kite Runner, and I thought it is absolutely brilliant, realistic, unexpected, and simply amazing. What are the other books written by Hosseini? Are they as good as The Kite Runner? If you have read any of them, please comment and tell me if you recommend them. Thank you!

Answer 1

Hosseini just recently started writing.
Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father involved with with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother was a teacher at a large girls high school in Kabul. In 1970, the Foreign Ministry sent his family to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Afghan embassy. In 1973 Hosseini and his family returned to their home city of Kabul. In July 1973, on the same night in which Hosseini's youngest brother was born, the Afghan king, Afghan power changed hands through a bloodless coup.

In 1976, Khaled Hosseini and his family moved to Paris, France, on account of his father's job. They did not return to Afghanistan because while in Paris, communists had siezed power through a bloody coup. Thus, Hosseini's family sought and was allowed political asylum in the United States, and made their residence in San Jose, California. Their property being all left in Afghanistan, they were forced to subsist on welfare and food stamps for a brief period.

Hosseini graduated from high school 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 Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1993. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He continues to practice medicine.


Influences
When 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 Spillane's Mike Hammer series. Hosseini's memories of peaceful pre-Soviet era Afghanistan, as well as his personal experiences with Afghan Hazaras, 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 Hosseini was in third grade, he taught Khan to read and write. Though his relationship with Hossein Khan was brief and rather formal, Hosseini's fond memories of this relationship served as an inspiration for the relationship between Hassan and Amir in The Kite Runner.


Novels
The Kite Runner (ISBN 1594480001) is the story of a young boy, Amir, juggling to establish a closer rapport with his father and coping with memories of a haunting childhood event. The novel is set in Afghanistan, from the fall of the monarchy until the collapse of the Taliban regime, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its many themes include ethnic tensions between the Hazara and the Pashtun in Afghanistan, and the immigrant experiences of Amir and his father in the United States. The novel was the number three best seller for 2005 in the United States, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Dreaming In Titanic City is expected to be published by Riverhead Books in early 2007.

Answer 2

Hosseini is in the process of writing his next novel. The Kite Runner is the only book he has has published so far.

Answer 3

I loved the Kite Runner too. I don't know if he has any other books in print, but I know his next book, Dreaming in Titanic City is SUPPOSED to come out this summer sometime, but you know how that goes. It's supposed to be about Afghanistan too.