作者簡介
卡勒德‧胡賽尼(Khaled Hosseini)
1965年生於喀布爾,父親為阿富汗外交官。1980年蘇聯入侵阿富汗時,隨全家逃往美國尋求政治庇護。胡賽尼畢業於加州大學聖地牙哥醫學系,現居加州執業。《追風箏的孩子》雖是他的第一本小說,卻因書中角色刻畫生動,故事情節震撼感人,出版後大獲好評,獲得各項新人獎,並躍居全美各大暢銷排行榜,目前正改拍成電影中。
With more than ten million copies sold in the United States of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, and more than thirty-eight million copies sold worldwide in more than seventy countries, Khaled Hosseini is one of most widely read and beloved novelists in the entire world. The Kite Runner spent 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and A Thousand Splendid Suns debuted as a #1 New York Times bestseller, remaining in the #1 spot for fifteen weeks, and spending nearly an entire year on the bestseller list. Hosseini is a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.