12歲的阿富汗富家少爺阿米爾與仆人哈桑情同手足。然而,在一場風箏比賽后,發(fā)生了一件悲慘不堪的事,阿米爾為自己的懦弱感到自責和痛苦,逼走了哈桑,不久,自己也跟隨父親逃往美國。
成年后的阿米爾始終無法原諒自己當年對哈桑的背叛。為了贖罪,阿米爾再度踏上暌違二十多年的故鄉(xiāng),希望能為不幸的好友盡最后一點心力,卻發(fā)現一個驚天謊言,兒時的噩夢再度重演,阿米爾該如何抉擇?
故事如此殘忍而又美麗,作者以溫暖細膩的筆法勾勒人性的本質與救贖,讀來令人蕩氣回腸。
下面就跟小編一起來欣賞雙語名著·追風箏的人 The Kite Runner(221)END的精彩內容吧!
A smile.
Lopsided.
Hardly there.
But there.
Behind us, kids were scampering, and a melee of screaming kite runners was chasing the loose kite drifting high above the trees. I blinked and the smile was gone. But it had been there. I had seen it.
“Do you want me to run that kite for you?”His Adam’s apple rose and fell as he swallowed. The wind lifted his hair. I thought I saw him nod.
“For you, a thousand times over,” I heard myself say.
Then I turned and ran.
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything all right. It didn’t make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight.
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.
I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn’t care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lips.
I ran.
微笑。
斜斜的。
幾乎看不見。
但就在那兒。
在我們后面,孩子們在飛奔,追風箏的人不斷尖叫,亂成一團,追逐那只在樹頂高高之上飄搖的斷線風箏。我眨眼,微笑不見了。但它在那兒出現過,我看見了。
“你想要我追那只風箏給你嗎?”他的喉結吞咽著上下蠕動。風掠起他的頭發(fā)。我想我看到他點頭。
“為你,千千萬萬遍。”我聽見自己說。
然后我轉過身。
我追。它只是一個微笑,沒有別的了。它沒有讓所有事情恢復正常。它沒有讓任何事情恢復正常。只是一個微笑,一件小小的事情,像是樹林中的一片葉子,在驚鳥的飛起中晃動著。
但我會迎接它,張開雙臂。因為每逢春天到來,它總是每次融化一片雪花;而也許我剛剛看到的,正是第一片雪花的融化。
我追。一個成年人在一群尖叫的孩子中奔跑。但我不在乎。我追,風拂過我的臉龐,我唇上掛著一個像潘杰希爾峽谷那樣大大的微笑。
我追。