Khaled Hosseini's Literary Creative Strategies in His Trilogy

The Hosseini trilogy encompasses Khaled Hosseini’s three distinguished novels: The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. As an Afghan-American novelist, Hosseini’s works exemplify a significant achievement within the sphere of ethnic literature. However, there is a significant deficiency in comprehensive examinations concerning his artistic traits throughout these three works.Therefore, focusing on Hosseini’s cultural identity as an ethnic writer, this paper purports to investigate the creative methodologies that emerge within his trilogy. The author posits that Hosseini employs at least three prominent creative strategies: An English writing framework with bilingual cultural elements, vivid depictions of wars through minor incidents, and soul-saving emotional narratives, all of which contribute substantially to the success of his trilogy while also providing meaningful insights for the development and advancement of ethnic writers.

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