![]() 1 on the New York Times paperback best- seller list. Last week, after spending nearly a year atop The Chronicle's paperback best-seller list and that of Book Sense's, which monitors independent booksellers nationwide, "The Kite Runner" hit No. His book, a story of two boys living in Afghanistan prior to the Soviet invasion, has sold more than 70,000 copies in hardcover and more than 1,250,000 in paperback. Today, the 40-year-old is a publishing phenomenon. and write for a couple hours before going to work. An internist at Kaiser in Mountain View, the father of an infant son, he used to rise at 5 a.m. When Khaled Hosseini sat down to write "The Kite Runner," he had no credentials as a writer. ![]() Photo by Michael Maloney / San Francisco Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT Michael Maloney ![]() He wrote this novel, his first, while practicing medicine full-time and raising two children. Hosseini, 39, was born in Afghanistan, came to the U.S. It�s now #1 in the Bay Area, #2 nationwide. Facebook Twitter Email South Bay novelist Khaled Hosseini is riding a huge wave of success with his best-selling novel, "The Kite Runner." A tale of two young boys in Afghanistan prior to the Soviet invasion, the book has slowly and steadily crept up the best-seller lists since it was released as a trade paperback last year. ![]()
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