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1、（Khaled Hosseini）Khaled HosseiniisanAfghan-bornAmericannovelistandphysician.Aftergraduatingfromcollege,heworkedasadoctorinCalifornia,anoccupationthathelikenstoanarrangedmarriageforhim.Hehaspublishedthreenovels,mostnotablyhis2003debutThe Kite Runner,followingthesuccessofThe Kite Runner,hedecidedtobec

2、omeafull-timewriter.（Khaled Hosseini）About the authorAbout the author Allthreeofhisnovelsbecamebestsellers,withThe Kite Runnerspending101weeksonthebestsellerlistasapaperback.In2007,The Kite RunnerwasfollowedbyA Thousand Splendid Suns,whichhasspent21weeksonThe New York TimesBestSellerlistand49weekson

3、The New York TimesBestSellerlistforhardcoverfiction.Thetwonovelshavesoldmorethan38millioncopiesinternationally.About the authorThenovelcentersaroundthefriendshipbetweenMariamandLaila.Itissplitintofourparts,withafocusonMariaminthefirstpart,continuingwithLailainthesecond,therelationshipbetweenthetwowo

4、meninthethirdpartandLailaslifewithTariqinpartfour,whichisalsotheonlypartwritteninthepresenttense.SummaryCreationIhopethebookoffersemotionalIhopethebookoffersemotionalsubtexttotheimageofthesubtexttotheimageoftheburqa-cladwomanwalkingdownburqa-cladwomanwalkingdownadustystreetinKabul.adustystreetinKabu

5、l.KhaledHosseiniina2007KhaledHosseiniina2007interview.interview.TitleThetitleofthebookcomesfromalineintheJosephineDavistranslationofthepoemKabul“.Khaled Hosseini replied:A Thousand Splendid Suns can be seen as a mother-daughter story.He ultimately considered the novels to be love stories in that it

6、is love that draws characters out of their isolation,that gives them the strength to transcend their own limitations,to expose their vulnerabilities,and to perform devastating acts of self-sacrifice.ThemesFamilyWomen in AfghanistanHosseini visited Afghanistan in 2003 and heard so many stories about what happened to women,the tragedies that they had endured,the difficulties,the gender-based violence,the discrimination,the being barred from active life,being banned from practicing their legal rights.This motivated him to write a novel centered on two Afghan women.ThemesMy thoughts