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Transcript: Interview: Khaled Hosseini discusses his childhood in Afghanistan and his novel "The Kite Runner"
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LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
07-27-2003
Interview: Khaled Hosseini discusses his childhood in Afghanistan and his novel "The Kite Runner"
Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
LIANE HANSEN, host:
`I became what I am today at the age of 12, on a frigid, overcast day in the winter of 1975' is the first sentence of the novel "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. It takes place in Afghanistan before the coup which toppled King Zahir Shah in 1973 during the Russian occupation in the 1980s, and the reign of the Taliban, until 2001. "The Kite Runner" follows the fortunes of two young men, Amir, the son of a wealthy man in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of the wealthy man's ...
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