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“Kite Runner” author pays secret visit to Afghanistan…
Khaled Hosseini, the author of “The Kite Runner”, just made a top secret visit to his homeland. The author is so famous and his book was so controversial there that he had to travel incognito.
The Washington Post reported that:
“But precisely because of that high profile, Hosseini’s U.N. hosts and handlers felt he was so vulnerable to attack here that his visit had to be virtually incognito. Each of his stops was unannounced, and he was never introduced by name. All trips outside the capital were nixed, and the Afghan press was not notified of his visit. There were no literary gatherings, no receptions, no public events. It was not only the Taliban the U.N. feared, it was public opinion.”
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