Afghani - Novelist | March 4, 1965 -
The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people.
Khaled Hosseini
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I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.
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No one ever really read to me as a child.
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I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.
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I - and, I suspect, millions of Americans like me, Republicans and Democrats alike - couldn't care less about Obama's middle name or the ridiculous six-degrees-of-separation game that is the William Ayers non-issue.
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The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear.
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There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government.
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I never thought what I wrote was good enough to be published. I thought of myself as completely detached from that constellation of real writers. It was completely for myself.
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You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you.
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I hear from non-Afghan immigrants - Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs in France - all the time. These people have had to redefine their lives, which is what my family went through when we came to the U.S. in 1980.
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My parents were reasonably affluent in Kabul. In the States, we were on welfare. My mom became a waitress, and my dad became a driving instructor. That part of the American immigrant experience applies to people of any nationality.
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Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.
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