Khaled Hosseini: And the Mountains Echoed

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 21, 2013

Khaled Hosseini a goodwill envoy for UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency) and author of the novel The Kite Runner, talks about his new book, And the Mountains Echoed.

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Excerpt: Khaled's Hosseini's And The Mountains Echoed

 

Excerpted from AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED by Khaled Hosseini by arrangement with Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc., Copyright ©.

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