Word: kite
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Dislikes: cheese- and/or kite-related activities, commas, tights...
...Publishers must do the same thing to transform books from a dead-end product to a revenue generator. Right now, consumers’ investment in books begins and ends at the Barnes & Noble counter. An average fan of “The Kite Runner” probably wouldn’t watch an online video of author Khaled Hosseini reading out loud, pay money to attend a book signing, or buy a poster of the book. It’s not that they’re against the idea; most of the time, the thought simply hasn?...
...come to write A Thousand Splendid Suns? I was finishing up The Kite Runner, which had turned out to be a novel about men - the lives of men, fatherhood, brotherhood, and so on. Even as I was finishing the editing of that book, I had decided that I had to write a second book and address the issues pertaining to women. So I put that idea on the back burner and just kind of let it simmer. I went to Afghanistan in the spring of 2003, and I met with people who worked for nongovernmental organizations, people who worked...
...hard to shift to a female perspective after you had been working so much from the male perspective in The Kite Runner? I didn't think it would be at first. I remember calling my agent and telling her what I was going to write, and she said, "It sounds pretty daunting." And I didn't take this seriously at that time. But once I got into the thick of writing, I thought I had really kind of cornered myself into a difficult spot, especially since I had set my heart on writing from two women's perspectives, two very...
...educated society is necessarily in the best interest of Afghanistan. This has been going on for quite some time. My publisher built a school in my name, on my behalf and on behalf of all the educators, the teachers, the librarians, and booksellers in this country who supported The Kite Runner and made a donation to the organization that I'm affiliated with, the U.N. Refugee Agency. They built a school in a region I had visited last year, just about 150 kilometers from Kabul in Northern Afghanistan. That school is a beautiful pink building. It has 270 students, grades...