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...years ago, when Khaled Hosseini began writing fiction in earnest, he was reluctant to give up his day job as an internist in California. "I thought it completely outlandish and unattainable, the idea of becoming a writer," says Afghan-born Hosseini. Even after his first book, The Kite Runner, became an international publishing phenomenon in 2003 (6 million copies in print in the U.S. and 18 million worldwide) and a critically acclaimed film, he still found it hard to imagine that his writing career would last. "For a year and a half after its publication, I refused to believe that...
...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...
...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...
...considering it." He'll probably decide, Bush friends tell TIME, in January. And if he does resolve to run, the popularity he still enjoys in Florida, as well as the lingering weakness of the Democratic Party in the state, would make him the clear and immediate front runner...