《The Kite Runner(追風箏的人)》是一個阿富汗作傢的處女作，霸占瞭美國兩大權威暢銷書排行榜《紐約時報》排行榜、《齣版商周刊》排行榜長達80餘周，聲勢超過紅透全世界的丹·布朗的《達·芬奇密碼》。 這本小說太令人震撼，很長一段時日，讓我所讀的一切都相形失色。文學與生活中的所有重要主題，都交織在這部驚世之作裏：愛、恐懼、愧疚、贖罪……——著名作傢伊莎貝拉·阿連德

★一個阿富汗作傢的處女作

★一部以史詩般的曆史景觀和蕩氣迴腸的人性故事，深深地打動全世界各地億萬讀者心的文學經典

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“許多年過去瞭，人們說陳年舊事可以被埋葬，然而我終於明白這是錯的，因為往事會自行爬上來。迴首前塵，我意識到在過去二十六年裏，自己始終在窺視著那荒蕪的小徑。”

《華盛頓郵報》認為：“沒有虛矯贅文，沒有無病呻吟，隻有精煉的篇章，細膩勾勒傢庭與友誼，背叛與救贖。作者對祖國的愛顯然與對造成它今日滄桑的恨一樣深。故事娓娓道來，輕筆淡描，近似川端康成的《韆羽鶴》。”

12歲的阿富汗富傢少爺阿米爾與僕人哈桑情同手足。然而，在一場風箏比賽後，發生瞭一件悲慘不堪的事，阿米爾為自己的懦弱感到自責和痛苦，逼走瞭哈桑，不久，自己也跟隨父親逃往美國。

成年後的阿米爾始終無法原諒自己當年對哈桑的背叛。為瞭贖罪，阿米爾再度踏上暌違二十多年的故鄉，希望能為不幸的好友盡最後一點心力，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？

小說如此殘忍而又美麗，作者以溫暖細膩的筆法勾勒人性的本質與救贖，讀來令人蕩氣迴腸。

The #1 National Bestseller 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 memory 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 backdrop 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.

卡勒德·鬍賽尼（Khaled Hosseini），1965年生於阿富汗喀布爾市，後隨父親遷往美國。鬍賽尼畢業於加州大學聖地亞哥醫學係，現居加州。“立誌拂去濛在阿富汗普通民眾麵孔的塵灰，將背後靈魂的悸動展示給世人。”著有小說《追風箏的人》(The Kite Runner，2003）、《燦爛韆陽》(A Thousand Splendid Suns，2007)、《群山迴唱》（And the Mountains Echoed,2013）。作品全球銷量超過4000萬冊。2006年，因其作品巨大的國際影響力，鬍賽尼獲得聯閤國人道主義奬，並受邀擔任聯閤國難民署親善大使。