美國 現代美國  (1965年三月4日)

 現實百態 Realistic Fiction： 《追風箏的人》 阅读卡勒德·賽尼 Khaled Hosseini在小说之家的作品!!!

　　卡勒德·賽尼（Khaled Hosseini），1965年生於喀爾，隨父親逃往美國。賽尼畢業於加州大學聖地亞哥醫學，現居加州執業。
　　
　　人物生平
　　賽尼的父親為外交官，母親是喀爾女子學校的教師。1970年，全家隨父親外派到伊朗的德黑蘭，在1973年，全家搬喀爾。同年，他母親生下最小的弟弟。這一年是阿富汗政權維持穩定的最一年。之政變與外侵不斷，也結束胡闹賽尼在阿富汗美好的童年。1976年，賽尼的父親在法國巴黎找到工作，於是全家搬遷到巴黎居住，由於阿富汗政權極不穩定，全家就再也沒有返國。1980年，聯入侵阿富汗，他父親决定美國申請政治庇護，之就舉移民到美國加州的聖荷西。初時經濟貧，曾美國政府領取福利金與食物券。
　　
　　1984年，賽尼高中畢業，申請到聖塔拉拉大學念生物，畢業在加州大學聖地牙哥分校的醫學就讀，1993年取得MD（行醫執照），1996年在加州洛城的錫安山醫學院完成實習工作。目前他是一位內科醫師。已婚育有兩位孩子。
　　卡勒德·賽尼-作品介紹
　　《追風箏的人》是賽尼醫生的第一本小說，也是美國第一本由阿富汗人寫出的英文小說，由於賽尼的母親是教師，在他童年帶他讀相當多的波斯詩歌和波斯小說，引導他對寫作的興趣。在他們住在伊朗時，三年級的賽尼認識一位哈紮拉族朋友。賽尼教他寫作、讀書，這段溫馨的憶遂成為日《追風箏的人》故事中主角阿米爾與哈山的背景。這本書中以阿米爾的角度，描述阿富汗的社會與政治轉，帶出遜尼派的普什圖人對什葉派的哈紮拉人的族歧視。由於主題特殊且情節動人，2003年出版陸續獲得許多新人文學奬，躍居全美各大暢銷排行榜。成為當年全美第三大暢銷書。《追風箏的人》在2006年由夢工廠買下電影版權。導演為馬·弗斯特（Marc Forster）。
　　
　　賽尼的第二本小說《燦爛陽》（A Thousand Splendid Suns）英文原文版於2007年5月出版，灣地區之中文版於2008年2月問市。
　　《燦爛陽》再次以阿富汗戰亂為背景，時空跨越三十年，用細膩感人的筆觸描繪阿富汗舊族制度下苦苦掙紮的婦女，她們所懷抱的希望、愛情、夢想與所有的失落。《燦爛陽》一書的主人公瑪麗雅姆在阿富汗一個偏遠貧窮的地方長大，她想上學，母親卻告誡她：“學校怎麽會教你這樣的人？一個女人要學一樣本領，那就是忍耐。”“忍耐什麽？”“不用操心，”她母親娜娜說，“需要你忍耐的東西絶不會少。”賽尼在《燦爛陽》展現半個世紀阿富汗婦女所要忍耐的姓种种氏。個人，要忍耐饑餓、病痛的約束。家庭要承受戰爭的創傷、難民的流離失所。國要忍耐前聯、塔利班與美國的戰爭。這是一部阿富汗忍耐的歷史。

　　Khaled Hosseini (Persian: خالد حسینی [ˈxɒled hoˈsejni]; English: /ˈhɑːlɛd hoʊˈseɪni/; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. He has lived in the United States since he was fifteen years old and is an American citizen. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide. His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was released on May 22, 2007. In 2008, the book was the bestselling novel in the UK (as of April 11, 2008), with more than 700,000 copies sold.
　　
　　Biography
　　
　　Hosseini was born in Kabul where his father worked for the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry. In 1970, Hosseini and his family moved to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan. In 1973, Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year.
　　In 1976, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France and moved the family there. They chose not to return to Afghanistan because PDPA had seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.
　　Hosseini graduated from Independence High School in San Jose in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1993. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He practiced medicine until a year and a half after the release of The Kite Runner.
　　Hosseini is currently a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He lives in Northern California with his wife, Roya, and their two children.
　　[edit]Influences
　　
　　
　　
　　Khaled Hosseini with actors from The Kite Runner, Bahram and Elham Ehsas.
　　When Khaled Hosseini was a child, he read a great deal of Persian poetry as well as Persian translations of novels ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series. Hosseini's "very fond memories of [his] childhood" in peaceful pre-Soviet era Afghanistan, as well as his personal experiences with Afghanistan's Hazara people led to the writing of his first novel, The Kite Runner. One Hazara man, named Hossein Khan, worked for the Hosseinis when they were living in Iran. When Khaled Hosseini was in third grade, he taught Khan to read and write. Although his relationship with Hossein Khan was brief and rather formal, Hosseini's fond memories of this relationship served as an inspiration for the relationship between Hassan and Amir in The Kite Runner.
　　[edit]Novels
　　
　　The Kite Runner (ISBN 1-59448-000-1) is the story of a young boy, Amir, struggling to establish a closer rapport with his father and coping with memories of a haunting childhood event. The novel is set in Afghanistan, from the fall of the monarchy until the collapse of the Taliban regime, and in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically in Fremont, California. Its many themes include ethnic tensions between the Hazara and the Pashtun in Afghanistan, and the immigrant experiences of Amir and his father in the United States. The novel was the number three best seller for 2005 in the United States, according to Nielsen BookScan. The Kite Runner was also produced as an audiobook read by the author. The Kite Runner has been adapted into a film of the same name released in December, 2007. Hosseini made a cameo appearance towards the end of the movie as a bystander when Amir buys a kite which he later flies with Sohrab.
　　Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns (ISBN 1-59448-950-5), the story of two women of Afghanistan, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become entwined, was released by Riverhead Books on May 22, 2007, simultaneous with the Simon & Schuster audiobook. Movie rights have been acquired by producer Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures.