追风筝的人英语版

The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it is Hosseini's first novel,[1] and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007.The Kite Runner t...

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.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.中文简介：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?故事如此残忍而又美丽,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.作者卡勒德·胡赛尼（Khaled Hosseini）,1965年生于喀布尔,后随父亲逃往美国.胡赛尼毕业于加州大学圣地亚哥医学系,现居加州执业.《追风筝的人》是他的第一本小说,因书中角色刻画生动,故事情节震撼感人,出版后大获好评,获得各项新人奖,并跃居全美各大畅销排行榜,目前正由梦工厂改拍成电影.

你好!追风筝的人英文原句Kite runner