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ROLE OF FATHER IN THE WORK KHALID HUSSEIN
Azizova Aziza
Bukhara Innovative Education
and Medical University
Abstract: The current study undertakes a detailed analysis of Khaled
Hosseini‟s The Kite Runner representative novel. Hosseini, an Afghan born American
writer depicts a war-torn Afghanistan in various universal themes i.e., family re-union,
discrimination, regret, childhood, guilt, womanhood, betrayal, religion and salvation
that played a considerable role in abating commission of crimes in Afghanistan during
pre and post-Taliban periods which ended up shaping the interminable psychological
scars of the protagonist. In his work, Hosseini reveals the devastating status of Afghans
in general and women and children in particular who have, for decades, been
irrationally marginalized and confined to the four walls of their homes by the society.
His quests for wealth, love, loyalty and unqualified peace among Afghan citizenry
whom he equates to have rights just like other human beings globally is the only means
through which the protagonist considers a key to chart out a new future.
Keywords: guilt, betrayal, discrimination, human relations
Khaled Hosseini
or
Khalid Husseini
goodwill ambassador, and former physician.
(2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book
and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in
as the protagonist. Hosseini's novels have spread awareness about
Afghanistan's people and culture.
Hosseini was briefly a resident of Iran and France after being born in Kabul,
Afghanistan, to a diplomat father. When Hosseini was 15, his family applied for asylum
, where he later became a naturalized citizen. Hosseini did not
return to Afghanistan until 2003
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protagonist in
The Kite Runner
. In later interviews, Hosseini acknowledged that he
for having been able to leave the country prior to
After graduating from college, Hosseini worked as a physician in
, a
situation he likened to "an arranged marriage".
The Kite
Runner
meant he was able to retire from medicine in order to write full-time. His three
novels have all reached various levels of critical and commercial success.
The Kite
Runner
, including three weeks
at number one.
weeks on the chart, including 15 at number one
(2013), remained on the chart for 33 weeks.
writing, Hosseini has advocated for the support of refugees, including establishing with
the UNHCR the Khaled Hosseini Foundation to support Afghan refugees returning to
Afghanistan.
Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965, in
, Afghanistan, the eldest of five
children.
His father, Nasser, worked as a diplomat for the
in Kabul while his mother worked as a
Regarding his ethnicity, Hosseini stated, "I'm not
part of me."
tribe of Pashtuns.
upbringing as privileged. He spent eight years of his childhood in the upper class
neighborhood in Kabul.
Hosseini does not recall his sister, Raya,
ever suffering discrimination for being a female,
growing, thriving, cosmopolitan city", where he regularly flew kites with his
cousins.
In 1970, Hosseini and his family moved to
. In 1973, Hosseini's family returned to Kabul,
and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year. In 1976, when Hosseini
was 11 years old, his father secured a job in
, France, and moved the family
there.
They were unable to return to Afghanistan because of the April 1978
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People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
power. In 1980, shortly after the start of the
, they sought
the
United
States
and
made
their
residence
When Hosseini initially came to the United States, he was fifteen
years old and could not speak English. He describes the experience as "a
and "very alienating".
Despite their distance from the country's turmoil, the family was aware of the
situations faced by a number of their friends and relatives. Hosseini explained:
We had a lot of family and friends in Kabul. And the communist coup, as
opposed to the coup that happened in '73, was actually very violent. A lot of people
rounded up and executed, a lot of people were imprisoned. Virtually anydiv [who]
was affiliated or associated with the previous regime or the royal family was
persecuted, imprisoned, killed, rounded up, or disappeared. And so we would hear
news of friends and acquaintances and occasionally family members to whom that had
happened, [who] were either in prison or worse, had just disappeared and nodiv knew
where they were, and some of them never turned up. My wife's uncle was a very famous
singer and composer in Kabul who had been quite vocal about his dislike for the
communists and so on, and he disappeared. And to this day, we have no idea what
happened to him. So that sort of thing, we began to hear news over in Europe of mass
executions and really just horror stories. So it was surreal, and it also really kind of hit
home in a very real way.
As a child, Hosseini read a lot of
, especially the works of poets
, and
. He has also cited
as a key influence from his youth,
in addition to translations of novels including
series.
key musical influence, choosing the songs "Madar" and "Aye Padesha Khuban" as his
two Inheritance Tracks during an appearance on
, and
naming Zahir as "the Afghan Elvis" and stating his music was "one of the seminal
memories of my time in Afghanistan".
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Hosseini is married to Roya, and they have two children. The family reside in
Northern California. He is fluent in Persian and Pashto, and has described himself as a
secular Muslim.
In July 2022, Hosseini announced via social media that his 21-
year-old child had come out as
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