KHALED HOSSEINI has been widely acclaimed for his debut novel The Kite Runner, an international best-seller. The novel not only launched Hosseini into the limelight as an Afghan-American writer but also bridged the gap between Western literary audience and the culture of the Middle East. The novel is about the friendship of two Afghan boys through the decades, and Amir, the narrator is an expat...

postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. postcolonial feminism or the ‘third world feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

There is always a distance between the narrator and story. Narrative Distance can be of varying degrees. The objective current study to explore how narrative discourse employed by Khaled Hosseini in novel “The Kite Runner”. Genette’s (1980) model provides theoretical framework for research as attempts analyze narrated speech, transposed speech reported apply narration Runner.

The third novel by Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed, is a work of family drama historical fiction that examines factors surrounding one lead to and reverberate from action: poor sells their youngest daughter wealthy couple in Kabul. Set Afghanistan, spans over fifty 50 years four generations. Hosseini includes several narrative voices, rather than just story’s main family. multiple nar...

Gender inequality and violence against women are critically discussed by scholars around the world. Set in Afghanistan, a country that still adheres to patriarchal culture, Khaled Hosseini, his novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, depicts how two main female characters, Meriam Laila, have face domestic their polygamous marriage with Rasheed. This research aims show is portrayed Suns Hosseini challen...