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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
, where he later became a naturalized citizen. Hosseini
did not return to Afghanistan until 2003
when he was 38, an experience similar
to that of the protagonist in
The Kite Runner
. In later interviews, Hosseini
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acknowledged that he suffered from
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.
(2007), spent 103 weeks on the chart, including 15 at number one
(2013), remained on the chart for 33
weeks.
In addition to 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
high school; both originate from
Regarding his ethnicity, Hosseini stated,
"I'm not pure anything. There's a
part of me."
mother's
family
is
believed
to
be
from
of
Pashtuns.
Hosseini describes his upbringing as privileged. He spent eight years
of his childhood in the upper class
Kabul.
Hosseini does not recall his sister, Raya, ever suffering
discrimination for being a female,
and he remembers Kabul as "a 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
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People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
seized power. In 1980, shortly after the start of the
, they
in the United States and made their residence in
When Hosseini initially came to the United States, he was fifteen
years old and could not speak English. He describes the experience as "a
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 Persian poetry, especially the works of
poets such as Rumi, Omar Khayyám, Abdul-Qādir Bēdil, and Hafez. He has also
cited a Persian translation of Jack London's
his youth, in addition to translations of novels including
and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series.
Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir as a key musical influence, choosing the songs
"Madar" and "Aye Padesha Khuban" as his two Inheritance Tracks during an
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appearance on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, and naming Zahir as "the Afghan
Elvis" and stating his music was "one of the seminal memories of my time in
Afghanistan".
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 transgenderю
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