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Hosseini shares several similarities with the narrator/ protagonist with in the novel. Bothe were raised in "pre-revolutionary" Afghanistan, not yet damaged by the violence to which the soviet invasion and Taliban. This explains the believability and the pain that was made apparent in the devastating detailed description which Amir gives upon his return to his home country. Hosseini hoped to return to Afghanistan again in 1980 but their plan was foiled as the soviet invasion meant that it wasn't possible.
 Hosseini was raised he was raised in a neighbourhood reasonably similar to the one Amir grew up in. Afghanistan was a cultural, cosmopolitan country at the time which combined western cultured films and literature with Afghan traditions. he also lived in a seemingly upper-class neighbourhood, giving way to lavish parties and a comfortable lifestyle, much like Baba delivered to Amir.
 Hosseini also had a relationship with a Hazara man, who worked as a cook to read and even write. By this time Hosseini also began to engage in literature and poetry, a passion in which Amir and him share.
Although the novel was largely fictional, Hosseini confesses that his childhood in Afghanistan served as inspiration for the novel. The aspect of the book which mostly resembled Hosseini's own experiences was the section in which Amir and Baba are labelled as immigrants in the US, as the Hosseini's were forced to survive on welfare whilst they became accustomed to the changes that a life in the US proposed.
 Whilst the film was being produced (after the large success of the novel and over *million copies being printed)some actors within the film had to be moved out of the country , as some Afghans found the prospect of repeat the hands of the Taliban, incredibly insulting. After a trip as an envoy he was in spired to create the Khanled Hosseini foundation, founding projects which support venerable woman and children in Afghanistan.