First Person: Novelist Khaled Hosseini Reflects On How Afghanistan Changed

is a world-renowned novelist and author of bestsellers “” and “.” He was born in Afghanistan but left the country as a young man. His novels focus on the Afghanistan he knew growing up — before the warlords, before the Islamist militias, before the Russians and the Pakistanis and before the Americans made his country a forever battlefield. He now lives in California.