Khaled Hosseini's 'Kite' still flying high at 2006 National Book Festival
Three years after his first and only novel to date was originally published, Khaled Hosseini drew a few hundred people under a big tent on a rainy Saturday morning at the National Book Festival 2006 to tell the story behind the story of The Kite Runner (Riverhead; May, 2003). Beginning with his idyllic childhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, Hosseini described a friendship that inspired The Kite Runner and recalled the wonderful civic and cultural life of Kabul that existed before the communist invasion, which in turn was followed by the Taliban takeover that transformed Afghanistan. Hosseini then took questions from the audience about his next novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, scheduled for publication next spring (Riverhead; May, 2007); the original ending of The Kite Runner; the details of kite-flying; the difference between first person fiction narrative and a memoir; his own return to Afghanistan after 27 years; and his father's family roots in western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.
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Khaled Hosseini's 'Kite' still flying high at 2006 National Book Festival
