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Khaled Hosseini talked about his book, And the Mountains Echoed, in which he chronicles his travels around Afghanistan and the relief work he had been doing there with the United Nations hig…

Witnesses testified about military and civilian operations in Afghanistan and possible strategies to brieng greater stability to the country. Among the topics they addressed were military pe…

Khaled Hosseini talked about his novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, published by Riverhead. His book told the story of two Afghan women who lived through monarchy, Communism, and the Taliban in…

Mr. Burns talked about his book and the PBS series The War, which was a documentary on World War II. Ms. See talked about her personal history and her book Peony in Love: A Novel and the rol…

Mr. Hosseini was interviewed about his novel, The Kite Runner.

President and Mrs. Bush attended the National Book Festival Gala the evening before the book festival on the National Mall. The National Book Festival was organized by the Library of Congres…

Khaled Hosseini discussed his novel The Kite Runner, published by Riverhead. It is the story of an Afghan man who came to America but remained haunted by memories from his childhood in Kabul…