A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption

      Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara — a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the gccsrc245.txt of Hassan behind him.

       The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons — their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrops of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows us for redemption.

        這是旅美阿富汗作家胡賽尼的第一本小說，作者以阿富汗裔以及美國移民的雙重身分，書寫並關注這幾年國際的焦點──中東問題，以1970年代的阿富汗與之後的美國為背景，描述在一起長大、情同手足的主僕，其後隱藏的種族問題、政經地位、身分位階……等等衝突；整個故事的舖陳及轉折扣人心弦，架構完整強烈，讀來彷彿看一部紙上電影，對於了解第三世界國家，是一個重要的參照。因書中角色刻畫生動，情節震撼感人，本書問世後，不但獲得各項新人獎，並躍居全美各大暢銷書排行榜，甚至也改拍成電影；繁體中譯版在讀者口耳相傳的介紹下，也登上台灣各書店暢銷書排行榜，諸多在出版市場的耀眼成績，使本書成為2005年極為亮眼的文學書籍。
 

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