People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children.

It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.

The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.