Together, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns have sold more than 10 million copies in the United States and more than 38 million copies worldwide.Ĭhosen as one of the titles for 1 st World Book Day held in U.S. Hosseini grew up in Kabul his father was a diplomat and his mother a secondary-school teacher. It was also #1 on the overall Book Sense list as well as #1 on regional Book Sense lists across the nation. Khaled Hosseini, (born March 4, 1965, Kabul, Afghanistan), Afghan-born American novelist who was known for his vivid depictions of Afghanistan, most notably in The Kite Runner (2003). In addition to being #1 on The New York Times hardcover fiction list, it was also #1 on nearly every national bestseller list, including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Publishers Weekly, and Fort-Wayne Journal-Gazette. A Thousand Splendid Suns debuted as the #1 book in the nation, and it held the top position for 4 straight weeks. The paperback of A Thousand Splendid Suns has spent twenty-one weeks on The New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list. It is intense and contains some graphic scenes however, it is not gratuitous.
This is a page turner with complex characters and situations that will make you think hard about friendship, good and evil, betrayal, and redemption. Rolling into its second week, the book continued to fly out of stores, with another 150,000 more copies printed. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is one of the best books I have read in years. A Thousand Splendid Suns went back to press almost daily its first week on sale, building to 1,255,000 copies in print in the U.S.
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