Acclaimed Afghani Author Khaled Hosseini Presents Program in Albuquerque, 6/9

Acclaimed Afghani author Khaled Hosseini will visit Albuquerque Sunday, June 9, for a 7pm event at the University of New Mexico Student Union Building, co-sponsored by Bookworks and the UNM English Department's literature program. Hosseini will be in conversation with Albuquerque journalist Gene Grant, host of KNME's "New Mexico In Focus" PBS program and a frequent correspondent on film, culture, and politics.

Hosseini's new book, And the Mountains Echoed, is garnering early acclaim in the months leading up to its May 21 on-sale date. The author's first book in six years, the publisher, Riverhead Books, says the book is about "how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations." In And the Mountains Echoed, the characters' lives and loves radiate out from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos, as an emotionally complex and powerful story unfolds.

Of the book, Hosseini says, "I am forever drawn to family as a recurring central theme of my writing. My earlier novels were at heart tales of fatherhood and motherhood. My new novel is a multi-generational family story as well, this time revolving around Brothers and Sisters, and the ways in which they love, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for each other."

In 2006, the UNCHR, the United Nations Refugee Agency named Dr. Hosseini a Goodwill Envoy. The successes of Hosseini's previous novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, (which sold 10 million copies in the U.S. and more than 38 million copies worldwide), have allowed him to establish the Khaled Hosseini Foundation, which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.

Doors open at 6:30 for the June 9 event. Admission requires a ticket, which can be purchased at Bookworks or online at www.bkwrks.com/khaled-hosseini. The cost of the ticket is $28.95 plus tax and includes a copy of the book and admittance to a signing with Hosseini. Entertainment for the evening will be provided by the Rogue Bindis belly dancing troupe, led by Flo Barger, with Middle Eastern wares on display from Tribal Souk.

Tickets: www.bkwrks.com/khaled-hosseini

Riverhead Books: http://www.riverheadbooks.com

Rogue Bindis: www.roguebindis.com

Tribal Souk: www.tribalsouk.com

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