Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
Khaled HosseiniMust have been quite the culture shock, going there.โ โYes it was.โ Idris doesnโt say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
Khaled HosseiniYou are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.
Khaled HosseiniI found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.
Khaled Hosseini