Thesis

Khaled Hosseini is an exile writer who succeeded in unveiling the war-ravaged land of Afghanistan. He is proclaimed as an important figure in contemporary literature, who in 2003 rose to fame and became a publishing phenomenon with his debut novel The Kite Runner which was on ‘The New York Times’ bestseller list for two years. Reeling from years of strife and colonial oppression and further looked at with disbelief post 9/11 Hosseini became a mouthpiece of the real Afghanistan through his works of fiction which were invariably set in his homeland. His other two books namely A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed came out in 2007 and 2013 respectively and earned widespread acclaim. The theme of atonement runs through all the works of Hosseini and it is noteworthy that the subalternity of the characters acts as an impediment on the road to atonement.