书名：追风筝的人 灿烂千阳  群山回唱 胡赛尼三本小说合集
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数840
作者：Khaled Hosseini
出版社名称：Penguin Random House
语种：英文
商品尺寸：约10.8 x 7.8 x 17.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：1000（以实物为准）

一部以史诗般的历史景观和荡气回肠的人性故事，打动亿万读者心的文学经典。本套装包括The Kite Runner《追风筝的人》、A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》以及And the Mountains Echoed《群山回唱》。随着三部作品的接连问世，使胡塞尼由新人作家一跃成为受到广泛认可的成熟作家，并于2006年获联合国人道主义奖。本套书适合英语程度中等以上及对经典英语文学作品感兴趣的读者。
推荐理由：
1.美籍阿富汗裔作家卡勒德·胡赛尼，美国畅销书作家，作品全球销量超过4000万册；
2.在这三部小说中，胡赛尼为世人揭开了阿富汗神秘的鲜为人知的另一面——身负重压的苦难深重的底层民众、血浓于水的骨肉亲情，还有那渴望自由幸福的顽强精神；
3.胡赛尼处女作《追风筝的人》蝉联亚马逊排行榜131周之久，全球热销600万册，创下出版奇迹；
4.从《追风筝的人》、《灿烂千阳》到《群山回唱》，部部情节生动，寓意深刻，为我们揭开阿富汗神秘的面纱；
5.英文原版，无删减，有助于提高文学素养和英文水平。
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid SunsandAnd the Mountains Echoed, written byKhaled Hosseini,are allset in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. All three of his novels became bestsellers:The Kite Runner spent 101 weeks onThe New York Times Best Seller list, four of them at number one.A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) was a Times Best Seller for 103 weeks, 15 at number one.And the Mountains Echoed (2013) debuted near the top of theTimes list and remained on it for 33 weeks until January 2014.

The Kite Runner《追风筝的人》
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，希望能为不幸的好友尽后一点心力，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？
The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose closest friend is Hassan, his father’s young Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan’s monarchy through the Soviet military intervention, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.

A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》
玛丽雅姆在阿富汗一个偏远贫穷的地方长大，她想上学，母亲却告诫她：“ 学校怎么会教你这样的人，一个女人只要学一样本领，那就是忍耐。”私生女玛丽雅姆的童年在十五岁生日时一去不复返：母亲自杀，定期探访的父亲也仿佛陌路。她成为了喀布尔中年鞋匠拉希德的妻子，生活在动荡年代的家庭暴力阴影下。十八年后，战乱仍未平息，少女莱拉失去了父母与恋人，亦被迫嫁给拉希德。两名阿富汗女性各自带着属于不同时代的悲惨回忆，共同经受着战乱、贫困与家庭暴力的重压，心底潜藏着的悲苦与忍耐相互交织，让她们曾经水火不容，又让她们缔结情谊，如母女般相濡以沫。
Mariam is an illegitimate child, and suffers from both the stigma surrounding her birth along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam’s husband.

And the Mountains Echoed《群山回唱》
1952年，阿富汗，贫穷的村庄沙德巴格。10岁的男孩阿卜杜拉和3岁的妹妹帕丽经历了一场可能永生难以挽回的骨肉分离。他们的妈妈在生帕丽的时候死于大出血，父亲萨布尔是个卖苦力的老实人，勉强支撑着艰难度日。他无力拉扯两个年幼的孩子，又给孩子们娶了个继母帕尔瓦娜。帕尔瓦娜的哥哥纳比在喀布尔一户富裕人家里做厨子兼司机，女主人妮拉一直无法生育。纳比舅舅居间牵线，帕丽被卖给了妮拉，开始了新生活。
The book’s foundation is built on the relationship between ten-year-old Abdullah and his three-year-old sister Pari and their father’s decision to sell her to a childless couple in Kabul, an event that ties the various narratives together. And the Mountains Echoed centers on the rapport between siblings. Besides Abdullah and Pari, Hosseini introduced two other sibling and sibling-like relationships—the children’s stepmother Parwana and her disabled sister Masooma and an Afghan-American doctor named Idris and his cousin Timur.

卡勒德·胡塞尼（Khaled Hosseini），1965年生于阿富汗喀布尔市，后随父亲迁往美国。胡塞尼毕业于加州大学圣地亚哥医学系，现居加州，并因其巨大的国际影响力受邀担任联合国亲善大使。他的第一本小说《追风筝的人》（The Kite Runner）问世后大获成功，因书中角色刻画生动，故事情节震撼感人，蝉联亚马逊排行榜131周之久，全球热销600万册，创下出版奇迹。《灿烂千阳》是胡塞尼继《追风筝的人》四年后出版的第二本小说，出版之前即获得极大关注，2007年5月22日在美国首发，赢得评论界一致好评，使胡塞尼由新人作家一跃成为受到广泛认可的成熟作家。
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage". He has published three novels. All three of his novels became bestsellers:The Kite Runnerspent 101 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, four of them at number one.A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) was a Times Best Seller for 103 weeks, 15 at number one.And the Mountains Echoed (2013) debuted near the top of the Times list and remained on it for 33 weeks until January 2014. 

The Kite Runner《追风筝的人》
A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》
And the Mountains Echoed《群山回唱》

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.
One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan. He asked me to come see him. Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins. After I hung up, I went for a walk along Spreckels Lake on the northern edge of Golden Gate Park. The early-afternoon sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed, propelled by a crisp breeze. Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call home. And suddenly Hassan’s voice whispered in my head: For you, a thousand times over. Hassan the harelipped kite runner.
I sat on a park bench near a willow tree. I thought about something Rahim Khansaid just before he hung up, almost as an after thought. There is a way to be good again. I looked up at those twin kites. I thought about Hassan. Thought about Baba. Ali.Kabul. I thought of the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came and changed everything. And made me what I am today.