《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 :
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Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter.

With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.

在巴基斯坦的世界中，“三杯茶”，是巴尔蒂人交朋友的方式。
第一杯茶，你是陌生人；
第二杯茶，你是我们的宾客；
第三杯茶，你是我们的家人，我们愿意为你做任何事，甚至是死。
当摩森顿于攀登K2峰迷路，科尔飞村居民拯救了他的生命。当地的居民生活艰困，糖是如此稀少珍贵，他们却为他煮了甜茶，让他恢复力气。此后，从第一杯茶到第三杯茶，从陌生人到愿意以生命守护彼此，“三杯茶”代表的是他们之间珍贵的信任，更是一生的承诺，也是一个旅人，改变世界的开始。
摩顿森原来是个登山家，1993为了纪念早逝的妹妹，展开了攀登世界第二高峰K2的旅程，却发生意外，与　队友们失去联络，只留下他一人，没有水也没有食物。十分幸运地，他在巴基斯坦山区的一个偏僻小村落被救起，而且在村民的细心照护下，他的身体得以康复。
那里景色如画，看似有如香格里拉般的人间仙境，但，却不是想象中的伊甸园。村民的善良所感动的摩顿森发现，村落里有三分之一的孩子活不过一岁生日，最近的医院得走上一星期的路，孩子们最大的愿望，是一间有屋顶的学校。在寒风里，当地小孩只能跪在户外霜冻的土地上，或坐在脏污的泥地上上课。村民穷到没钱聘请老师。摩顿森于是承诺，他一定会回来为他们办所学校……
在过去的十二年，巴基斯坦、阿富汗及西藏山区，六十所学校陆续成立，最特别的是，这些学校让原本无法上学的女孩开始接受教育。摩顿森守护妹妹的信念，改变了一群女孩的生命，是她们不再藏匿于面纱之后，有勇气面对世界，甚至拥有改变世界的能力。
当我们怀疑，一个人的力量是否真的能改变世界时，摩顿森做到了。为了坚持理想，即使受到恋人的遗弃、社会的漠视、巴提人的拐骗，即使与妻儿分隔两地、被军阀囚禁，即使遭逢美国911事件、美国轰炸阿富汗，在悲伤、沮丧、孤独与滨临死亡之时，他从来没有遗忘他的承诺，他愿意用生命去化解世界上最大的仇恨。

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.