The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.
Khaled HosseiniAnd one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
Khaled HosseiniI don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
Khaled HosseiniAfghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.
Khaled Hosseini