About the AuthorKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. After publishing his first book, The Kite Runner, which focuses on issues pertaining to the men of Afghanistan, Hosseini thought about writing a second book pertaining to the lives of the women in Afghanistan. The two main female characters were inspired by his collective sense of what women in Afghanistan went through when he learned about it on his trip back to Afghanistan in 2003. A Thousand Splendid Suns was published in 2007 and is currently being sold in over 50 countries.
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