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How To Fly Kites and Other Lessons.(Arts)('The Kite Runner'; movie adaptation)(Interview)(Cover story)
Byline: Lorraine Ali
The writer, director and lead actor dish on the joys and hardships of turning a beloved book into a film.
On the eve of "The Kite Runner's" Los Angeles premiere, Hosseini, Forster and Abdalla spoke with NEWSWEEK's Lorraine Ali about their hopes for the film, their love of the book and their fear of Hollywood.
Ali: Marc, was this a daunting project? I heard you knew very little about Afghanistan before taking on the film.
Forster: That's true. But it was more daunting that 8 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide and that every second person has read it. Whenever I even mentioned it, it was, like, "Oh, ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 19, 2006 700+ words
...storytelling that made "The Kite Runner" a beloved classic...than the writing of 'The Kite Runner,' because it was a more...Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and moved...His first novel, "The Kite Runner," was an international...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek December 17, 2007 700+ words
...the dialogue in "The Kite Runner" is in Dari, with English...boys flying kites in Kabul while speaking English...country. At the time, Kabul seemed safe and I thought...all bootleg. I was in Kabul; "The Kite Runner" in Farsi is a best...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire February 12, 2009 700+ words
...bind us all, and The Kite Runner speaks to those experiences...international best-sellers The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid...in 1965 and grew up in Kabul. Hosseini and his family...internist when he penned The Kite Runner. In 2006, Hosseini was...
- Blowing in the Wind.(Arts)('The Kite Runner')(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Ali, Lorraine December 17, 2007 700+ words
...s 2003 novel "The Kite Runner" introduced Western...childhood friends in Kabul, it illuminated the...adaptation of "The Kite Runner" opens in America...rise of the Taliban in Kabul. "The Kite Runner" is a moving, smart...
- BlogWorld Expo to Host Exclusive Sneak Preview of the Critically Acclaimed...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 2, 2007 700+ words
...the Weblog Awards, The Kite Runner preview and registration...blogworldexpo.com. About The Kite Runner Release: < December...recent < memory, The Kite Runner is a profoundly emotional...glorious afternoon in < Kabul and the skies are bursting...
- The Kite Runner Inspires Gift Through One Laptop.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 12, 2007 700+ words
...Laptops to Schools In Kabul LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12...release of the film The Kite Runner, Paramount Classics...attending its school in Kabul. (Logo: http...to the ARO schools in Kabul." Masi Oka, star of...Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner is the story of two boys...
- Soaring debut; Impressive `Kite Runner' explores Afghan refugee's dislocation...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Wynn, Judith June 15, 2003 700+ words
...Judith Wynn "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini...debut novel, "The Kite Runner," begins in Kabul in the early 1970s...travels to war-torn Kabul to find Hassen and runs...dialogue make "The Kite Runner" soar.
- Seeing Afghanistan through the eyes of 'The Kite Runner': Khaled Hosseini is in...
- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) April 2, 2006 700+ words
...eventually propel sales of The Kite Runner to more than 3 million...Published in 2003, The Kite Runner became a word-of...jealousy. It is set in Kabul during the 1970s, the...more ambitious than The Kite Runner, he said. "I've...
