Book Description
Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage and the place he holds in his father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament, which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
中文簡介:
12歲的阿富汗富家爺阿米爾與人哈桑情同足。
然而,在一場風比賽后,發生了一件悲慘不堪事,阿米爾為自己的懦弱感到自責痛苦,逼走了哈桑,不久,自己也跟隨父逃往美國。
成年后的阿米爾無法原諒自己當對哈桑的背叛。
阿米再度踏上暌違二十多年的故鄉,卻發現一個驚天謊言,兒時的噩夢再度重演,阿米爾該如何抉擇?
這是一部語言純凈,但真摯感人的小說,帶給了美國出版界自《可愛的骨頭》以來從來有過的驚喜。
它出人意料地在《紐約時報》暢銷書榜上長居一年有余,也是去年全美第三大暢銷小說。
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