![]() ![]() His primary contribution has been to speak with those fleeing fighting in countries such as Afghanistan, Chad, Iraq, Jordan and Uganda and to write their stories down, much as he did for his characters Amir and Hassan in his bestselling 2003 novel The Kite Runner.Īnother writer faced with such unexpected success (The Kite Runner sold more than 7m copies in the US alone) might have retreated from the world. There is a sense that his travels throughout the world as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a post he has held for more than a decade, most recently in Uganda, have given him an increased appreciation for his life and whoever is in front of him. He peppers me with questions about who I am and where I am from long before I get a chance to turn on the recorder. When we start the interview, the novelist is just as attentive. He is beaming proudly, as though seeing the sun through my eyes. After a moment I take off the glasses and look in his direction. I had tried and failed to watch the eclipse from my car as I drove to the meeting, but what Hosseini shows me is many orders of magnitude more breathtaking. ![]() ![]() The sun is a perfect circle, cut neatly into a crescent by the dark round shadow of the moon. I put on the sunglasses and look up at the sky. ![]()
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