“For 15 months, I woke up at 5:00 in the morning, drank a cup of black coffee and created the world of Amir and Hassan,” recalls Khaled Hosseini, the author of the novel “The Kite Runner,” about his book. Today, March 4, is the birthday of the Afghan-American writer, his 60th birthday.

His first novel, “The Kite Runner,” which brought him worldwide fame, is a story of a father and son, while his second novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” is a story of a mother-daughter relationship. The bottom line of the second novel is the violation of women’s rights in Afghanistan, violence and cruelty against them.

The Armenian reader can see many similarities between the heroes of Khaled Hosseini’s novel “And the Mountains Resounded” and the soldiers who returned home from the Artsakh war. The central theme of the novel is pain, love, the bond between brother and sister, and family love. The book consists of nine chapters, each telling the story of a separate character.

‍According to the novel's translator Anush Sedrakyan, one of the main themes of the book is the inevitability of fate: "All the heroes are running away from something: one from himself, another from exile, a third from war, a fourth from his love... and all of them eventually come to the same point, proving that you cannot run away from fate."

Khaled Hosseini is one of the favorite authors of the Armenian reader, his novels always find a place in the top ten most read books in libraries.