A Thousand Splendid Suns (33 page)

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel,
The Kite Runner
, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-four countries. In 2006 he was named a US goodwill envoy to the United
Nations Refugee Agency.

He lives in Northern California.