好书推介--The Kite Runner

       小说《追风筝的人》以第一人称视角，讲述了一个身在美国的阿富汗移民童年的往事和他成人后对儿时过错的心灵救赎过程。

    Published in 2003, The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini, a novelist and physician who was born in Afghanistan and who has lived in the United States since he was 15.

    The book tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. He befriends Hassan, the son of his father’s servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events including the fall of Afghanistan’s monarchy, the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees and the rise of the Taliban regime.

    The Kite Runner has been accused of hindering Western understanding of the Taliban by portraying Taliban members as representatives of various Western myths of evil including pedophilia, drug abuse and sadism.

    The American Library Association reported that The Kite Runner was one of its most challenged books of 2008, with multiple attempts to remove it from libraries for using “offensive language” and for being “sexually explicit and unsuited to [younger] age groups.” 

    The novel was adapted as a motion picture in 2007 starring Khalid Abdalla (Amir), Homayoun Ershadi (Baba), and Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada (Hassan). Directed by Marc Forster and with a screenplay by David Benioff, this movie claimed numerous awards and was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA Film Award and a Critics Choice Award.