卡勒德·胡赛尼1965年生于喀布尔, 1980年苏联入侵阿富汗时，全家逃往美国。《Kite Runner》讲述了喀布尔富家少爷阿米尔和仆人哈桑的故事，将阿富汗君主制的终结、塔利班当权、“9·11”等政治事件融合在小说生活背景中。书中的主人公在成长过程中见证了战争、宗教、爱、愧疚、赎罪等人类永恒话题。第二本小说《A Thousand Splendid Suns》(灿烂千阳)被认为是“女性版《Kite Runner》”，讲述了两个阿富汗女性如何在婚姻暴力、干旱和贫穷中挣扎求生。胡赛尼的这两本小说在全球范围内累计售出3800万册。《And the Mountains》(群山回响）的写作从2009年11月开始，到2012年10月才完成初稿，历时近三年。在提笔创作前，胡赛尼并不知道这会是一个怎样的故事，但是一幅画面像霹雳一样击中了他，并在他的脑海中越来越清晰。
那是一个男人拖着老式马车在沙漠中行走，车厢里坐着一个3岁左右的女孩，后面跟着一个10岁左右的男孩。
“我不知道他们是谁，但这个画面给我的印象是如此强烈，我必须要找到他们。”原来他们是亲密的兄妹，行走在前往喀布尔的路上，后来发生的事情铸成了他们六十年的悲欢离合。
从《Kite Runner》、《A Thousand Splendid Suns》到《And the Mountains》，胡赛尼三部小说的主人公都生活在内外焦灼的恶劣环境下：阿富汗的革命、战争令主人公家庭破碎。惊慌无助的同时，他们流亡、移民、妻离子散。但这不是他们生活的全部，这些阿富汗人勇敢、积极生活，有活力、有梦想，有潜能。
“Khaled Hosseini is today’s most important American author.”—New York Daily News
Collect The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed in this box set from international best-selling author Khaled Hosseini.
The Kite Runner
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, this is a beautifully crafted narrative about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption. A sweeping novel of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of thirty years in Afghanistan, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful book that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation’s.
And the Mountains Echoed
This story follows its characters and the ramifications of their choices around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—as the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex with each turning page.
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