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双语名著·追风筝的人 The Kite Runner(200)

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2021年08月28日

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12岁的阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而,在一场风筝比赛后,发生了一件悲惨不堪的事,阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦,逼走了哈桑,不久,自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。

成年后的阿米尔始终无法原谅自己当年对哈桑的背叛。为了赎罪,阿米尔再度踏上暌违二十多年的故乡,希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力,却发现一个惊天谎言,儿时的噩梦再度重演,阿米尔该如何抉择?

故事如此残忍而又美丽,作者以温暖细腻的笔法勾勒人性的本质与救赎,读来令人荡气回肠。

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“Your petition to adopt this young fellow. Give it up. That’s my advice to you.”
“Duly noted,” I said. “Now, perhaps you’ll tell me why.”
“That means you want the long answer,” he said, his voice impassive, not reacting at all to my curt tone. He pressed his hands palm to palm, as if he were kneeling before the Virgin Mary. “Let’s assume the story you gave me is true, though I’d bet my pension a good deal of it is either fabricated or omitted. Not that I care, mind you. You’re here, he’s here, that’s all that matters. Even so, your petition faces significant obstacles, not the least of which is that this child is not an orphan.”
“Of course he is.”
“Not legally he isn’t.”
“His parents were executed in the street. The neighbors saw it,” I said, glad we were speaking in English.
“You have death certificates?”
“Death certificates? This is Afghanistan we’re talking about. Most people there don’t have birth certificates.”His glassy eyes didn’t so much as blink. “I don’t make the laws, sir. Your outrage notwithstanding, you still need to prove the parents are deceased. The boy has to be declared a legal orphan.”
“But--”
“You wanted the long answer and I’m giving it to you. Your next problem is that you need the cooperation of the child’s country of origin. Now, that’s difficult under the best of circumstances, and, to quote you, this is Afghanistan we’re talking about. We don’t have an American embassy in Kabul. That makes things extremely complicated. Just about impossible.”
“What are you saying, that I should throw him back on the streets?” I said.
“I didn’t say that.”

“你提出的收养这个孩子的请求。放弃吧。那是我给你的建议。”
“知道了。”我说,“现在,也许你可以告诉我原因了。”
“那就是说你想听长的答案了?”他语气冷淡地说,对我不快的语气无动于衷。他合起手掌,似乎他正跪在圣母面前。“让我们假设你告诉我的故事是真的,不过我非常怀疑它是假的,或者省略掉一大部分。告诉你一声,我不关心。你在这里,他在这里,这才是要紧的事情。即使这样,你的请求面临着明显的障碍,更何况这个孩子并非孤儿。”
“他当然是。”
“从法律上来讲他不是。”
“他的父母在街上被处决了,邻居都看到。”我说,为我们用英语交谈而高兴。
“你有死亡证明吗?”
“死亡证明?我们在说的是阿富汗,很多人甚至连出生证明都没有。”他明亮的眼睛一眨不眨,“先生,法律不是我制定的。你生气也没用,你还是得证明他的父母确实去世了。这个男孩必须让法律承认他是孤儿。”
“可是……”
“你想要长的答案,我现在正给你呢。你的下一个问题是,你需要这个孩子出生国的合作。现在,就算在最好的情况下,这也很难,还有,引用你说过的,我们在谈论的是阿富汗。我们在喀布尔没有大使馆。这使事情极端复杂,几乎是不可能的。”
“你在说什么?我应该将他扔到街头上吗?”我说。
“我可没那么说。”
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