《The Kite Runner(追风筝的人)》是一个阿富汗作家的处女作,霸占了美国两大权威畅销书排行榜《纽约时报》排行榜、《出版商周刊》排行榜长达80余周,声势超过红透全世界的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》。 这本小说太令人震撼,很长一段时日,让我所读的一切都相形失色。文学与生活中的所有重要主题,都交织在这部惊世之作里:爱、恐惧、愧疚、赎罪……——著名作家伊莎贝拉·阿连德
★一个阿富汗作家的处女作
★一部以史诗般的历史景观和荡气回肠的人性故事,深深地打动全世界各地亿万读者心的文学经典
★美国《纽约时报》、《出版商周刊》等九大畅销书排行榜榜首图书
★英国《观察家报》2005年度最佳图书
★台湾诚品书店、金石堂书店、博客来书店销售冠军
★连续80余周雄踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜,声势超过红透全球的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》
“许多年过去了,人们说陈年旧事可以被埋葬,然而我终于明白这是错的,因为往事会自行爬上来。回首前尘,我意识到在过去二十六年里,自己始终在窥视着那荒芜的小径。”
《华盛顿邮报》认为:“没有虚矫赘文,没有无病呻吟,只有精炼的篇章,细腻勾勒家庭与友谊,背叛与救赎。作者对祖国的爱显然与对造成它今日沧桑的恨一样深。故事娓娓道来,轻笔淡描,近似川端康成的《千羽鹤》。”
12岁的阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而,在一场风筝比赛后,发生了一件悲惨不堪的事,阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦,逼走了哈桑,不久,自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。
成年后的阿米尔始终无法原谅自己当年对哈桑的背叛。为了赎罪,阿米尔再度踏上暌违二十多年的故乡,希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力,却发现一个惊天谎言,儿时的噩梦再度重演,阿米尔该如何抉择?
小说如此残忍而又美丽,作者以温暖细腻的笔法勾勒人性的本质与救赎,读来令人荡气回肠。
Book Description
This is a wonderful, beautiful epic of a novel. Set in Afghanistan and the United States between the 1970s to the present day, it is a heartbreaking tale of a young boy, Amir, and his best friend who are torn apart. This is a classic word-of-mouth novel and is sure to become as universally loved as The God of Small Things and The Glass Palace.
Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him - for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted and jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then, what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives, and define their futures.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park.
--Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)17.8 width:(cm)11.1
卡勒德·胡赛尼(Khaled Hosseini),1965年生于阿富汗喀布尔市,后随父亲迁往美国。胡赛尼毕业于加州大学圣地亚哥医学系,现居加州。“立志拂去蒙在阿富汗普通民众面孔的尘灰,将背后灵魂的悸动展示给世人。”著有小说《追风筝的人》(The Kite Runner,2003)、《灿烂千阳》(A Thousand Splendid Suns,2007)、《群山回唱》(And the Mountains Echoed,2013)。作品全球销量超过4000万册。2006年,因其作品巨大的国际影响力,胡赛尼获得联合国人道主义奖,并受邀担任联合国难民署亲善大使。
说实话,我一开始只是听说这本书很有名,抱持着“读读看”的心态翻开的,结果完全被它那种近乎残酷的坦诚所吸引。它没有回避人性中最丑陋、最不堪的一面,却又奇迹般地在最深的黑暗中开出了一朵关于爱与宽恕的花。我最佩服的是作者对“友谊”这个主题的探讨,那种掺杂着阶级、背叛与渴望被接纳的复杂情谊,简直写活了。你看着主角们在成长的泥泞中摸爬滚打,那些年少无知犯下的错误,就像一块沉重的石头,一直压在心头,直到多年后才找到面对它的勇气。这种对“过去”的持续追问和自我和解的过程,让我这个旁观者都感同身受,仿佛我的人生中也藏着一些未曾说出口的抱歉。书中的意象运用也十分精妙,那些重复出现的符号,像是某种隐喻的钥匙,一点点解锁了隐藏在故事深处的秘密。与其说我在读一个故事,不如说我正在参与一场关于良知和责任的深刻对话。
评分这本书,天哪,简直是一场情感的过山车,把我从头到尾都紧紧攥在手心里。我得说,作者的叙事功力真是炉火纯青,他构建的世界既真实得令人心痛,又充满了一种魔幻般的诗意。你仿佛能闻到阿富汗尘土的气息,感受到阳光炙烤的灼热,也能体会到那种深入骨髓的愧疚和救赎的渴望。尤其是在描写人物内心的挣扎时,那种细腻入微的刻画,让人拍案叫绝。那些复杂的人性光辉与阴影交织在一起,让人反思自己面对困境时会做出怎样的选择。我特别欣赏作者处理历史背景的方式,它不是干巴巴的教科书式灌输,而是自然而然地融入到角色的命运之中,让读者在跟随人物成长的同时,也对那个动荡的时代有了更深层次的理解。这本书的节奏把握得也极好,高潮迭起,低谷沉郁,每一个转折点都处理得恰到好处,让你根本舍不得放下书卷,生怕错过任何一个细微的情感流露。读完之后,那种怅然若失的感觉久久不能散去,不得不说,这是一次极其深刻且震撼的阅读体验。
评分我得承认,这本书的阅读体验是需要时间的沉淀的。刚读完的时候,脑子里充满了各种情绪的碎片,一时难以整理成清晰的评价。但随着时间的推移,它在我心中的分量反而越来越重。它不提供简单的答案或廉价的安慰,它只是将生活的真相赤裸裸地摆在你面前,让你自己去消化。作者的文字有一种魔力,可以轻易地将读者带入到一种近乎冥想的状态,去审视自己的行为准则和价值体系。最让我震撼的是那种对“责任”的探讨,它跨越了时间和地理的界限,成为了一种普世的道德拷问。那些关于牺牲与成长的篇章,读起来让人心头一紧,仿佛亲身经历了主角们所经历的一切磨难。总而言之,这本书绝对是值得反复品味的那种经典,每次重读,可能都会有新的体悟,因为它触及的,是人类灵魂深处永恒的命题。
评分从文学技巧的角度来看,这本书的叙事结构简直是教科书级别的典范。它巧妙地利用了时间线的跳跃和视角的转换,让信息以最有效、最引人入胜的方式呈现在读者面前。你永远都在期待着下一个真相的揭露,但作者又非常克制,总是在你快要抓狂的时候,才给予那么一点点线索。这种“吊胃口”的艺术,高明得很。而且,角色塑造的立体程度让人叹为观止,没有绝对的好人或坏人,每个人都有自己的局限和挣扎。特别是那些配角,即使戏份不多,也个个栩栩如生,他们的存在为主角的命运增添了更多不可预测的变量。读到后半段,那种对故土的思念和漂泊无依的感觉扑面而来,那种“家”的概念被彻底颠覆后的迷失感,描写得催人泪下。这本书不仅仅是一个关于个人救赎的故事,它更是对一个时代、一个民族命运的深刻挽歌。
评分这是一部需要深呼吸才能读完的作品,因为它太沉重了,但它的重量恰恰是它价值的体现。我不是那种轻易被“煽情”打动的读者,但我必须承认,这本书里有些场景的冲击力是物理层面的。那种突如其来的变故,那种成年后才理解的童年创伤,被作者用一种近乎冷峻的笔调描绘出来,反而更具力量。你不会觉得它在刻意博取同情,而是让你不得不直面那些隐藏在光鲜生活背后的苦涩真相。关于家庭关系的描绘也极其真实,父辈的期望、代际之间的鸿沟,以及文化差异带来的隔阂,都处理得层次分明。我尤其喜欢作者在描述异域风情时的那种细致入微,那种文化冲突带来的张力,让整个故事的背景板更加立体和鲜活。这本书像一面镜子,映照出我们每个人内心深处那些不愿意触碰的阴影,促使我们去思考:真正的勇气,究竟是什么?
评分赎罪是一种成长。
评分以前读过译版,翻译的很细腻,当时特别喜欢。最近经常提到一个词,敏感,年龄大了,情感触角丰富些眼里也愿意看见他人,才发现其实每个人都敏感。很触动自己的是地方是担心爸爸被抢走的那种占有欲。生活中即便是个烂父亲,在某个点也会占有欲强的护食一样,血缘关系就有那么特别。不够勇敢的人太多了,那些勇敢的人才倍显珍贵。
评分Shocked! One of the best fictions I have ever read...Stunning masterpiece. Learned so much from those profound characters.
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评分很喜欢这本小说,分别看了中文版,听了英文电子书还看了电影。错了就是错了,赎罪也无济于事。随便说一句,作者的第二本灿烂千阳真是超烂。
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