Khaled Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father was a diplomat who worked for the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother was a teacher at a girls' high school in Kabul. He spent his early years in Kabul until the age of five, when Hosseini and his family moved to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan. They returned to Kabul in the historic year of 1973, when Afghanistan became a republic. Several months later, the former King of Afghanistan, Zahir Shah, was ousted from power in a bloodless coup that was orchestrated by Zahir's cousin, Daoud Khan. Hosseini's family moved again in 1976, when his father's work took him to Paris. After the communists seized control of the government and the Soviets occupied Afghanistan, the Hosseini family decided to seek political asylum in the United States instead of returning to Kabul as planned. They were allowed to move to San Jose, California, where Hosseini graduated from high......
Join Now or Login to view the rest of this paper.
Approximate Word Count: 441
Approximate Pages: 2 (260 words per double-spaced page) |