Sunday 16:00-16:30, repeated Thursday 16:00-16:30, except first Sunday in the month when it is replaced by Book Club.
Open Book spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
This week
Sunday 23 December 2007
Khaled Hosseini, the subject of a special Open Book interview.
Mariella Frostrup meets the author of one of the most popular books of recent years.
In 2003 Khaled Hosseini published The Kite Runner, a novel about two young boys growing up in 1970s Kabul, which went on to become an international bestseller.
In an extended interview, Hosseini talks to Mariella about his own childhood in Afghanistan, his escape from the country as a teenager and his family’s struggle to survive as refugees in America.
He reveals how his recent return to the country of his birth inspired his second novel, and tells Mariella why despite a career as a doctor he only ever wanted to be a writer.
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini Publisher: Bloomsbury
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini Publisher: Bloomsbury
