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今天为大家推荐的是来自于美籍阿富汗作家卡勒德·胡赛尼的小说 ——《追风筝的人》(The Kite Runner)。
《追风筝的人》是美籍阿富汗作家卡勒德·胡赛尼（Khaled Hosseini）的第一部长篇小说，是美国2005年的排名第三的畅销书。
全书围绕风筝与阿富汗的两个少年之间展开，一个富家少年与家中仆人关于风筝的故事，关于人性的背叛与救赎。
《追风筝的人》清新自然，以新写实的笔法，诉说着温情与残酷，美丽与苦难，它不仅仅展示了一个人的心灵成长史，也展示了一个民族的灵魂史，一个国家的苦难史。
这部小说流畅自然，就像一条清澈的河流，却奔腾着人性的激情，蕴含着阿富汗斯坦这个古老国家丰富的灵魂，激荡着善与恶的潜流撞击。
小说之所以能够吸引不同民族、国家的读者，撼动读者内心纤细的情感，是因为它讨论了关于人性和人性的拯救问题，这是现代人类面临的共同话题。
人性的救赎是这部小说的核心价值。
2007年，根据小说改编的同名电影全球上映。
我们选取的是小说以及影片结尾时最感人的片段，长大后的哈桑和阿米尔相视，仿佛再次回到童年时代的二人，那句多年前的诺言依然存在——“为你，千千万万遍”。
经典语句
“ Behind us, kids were scampering, and a melee of screaming kite runners was changing the loose kite drifting high above the tree. I blinked and the amile was gone. But it had been there. I had seen it.
在我们后面，孩子们在飞奔，追风筝的人不断尖叫，乱成一团，追逐那只在树顶高高之上飘摇的断线风筝。我眨眼，微笑不见了。但它在那儿出现过，我看见了.
"Do you want me to run that kite for you?" His Adam's apple rose and fell as he swall owed. The wind lifted his hair. I thought I saw him nod.
“你想要我追那只风筝给你吗？”他的喉结吞咽着上下蠕动。风掠起他的头发。我想我看到他点头。
"For you, a thousand times over," I heard myself say.
我听见自己说：“为你，千千万万遍。”
It was only a smile, nothing more. I didn't make everything all right. It didn't make any thing all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's fight.
它只是一个微笑，没有别的了。它没有让所有事情恢复正常。它没有让任何事情恢复正常。只是一个微笑，一件小小的事情，像是树林中的一片叶子，在惊鸟的飞起中晃动着。
But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.
但我会迎接它，张开双臂。因为每逢春天到来，它总是每次融化一片雪花；而也许我刚刚看到的，正是第一片雪花的融化。
That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.
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。
"There is a way to be good again". I looked up at those twin kites. I thought about Hassan. Thought about Baba. Ali. Kabul. I thought of the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came and changed everything. And made me what I am today.
"那儿又再次成为好人的路。"我抬眼看看那比翼齐飞的风筝。我忆起哈桑。我缅怀爸爸。我想到阿里。我思念喀布尔。我想起曾经的生活，想起1975年那个改变了一切的冬天。那造就了今天的我。
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