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The situation in Afghanistan has touched the hearts of countless people. The country is also closely associated with the name of Husseini, the author of The Kite Chaser. In "Brilliant Thousand Suns" set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, Khaled Al-Husseini focuses on two women, each carrying tragic memories belonging to different eras, experiencing the weight of war, poverty and domestic violence together, and the misery and patience hidden in their hearts are intertwined, which once made them intolerable, and let them form a friendship, like mother and daughter. Husseini used their fate to reconstruct a war-torn country for us.
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I vividly remember the day the Afghan Taliban destroyed the Big Buddha, when I, like all happy Chinese children, sat in front of the evening news and ate with my parents. Until today, when I saw this book "Brilliant Thousand Suns", I suddenly realized that at that moment, in a far strange country, there were two fictional women, and thousands of real women, who were suffering, because the scenes laid out in the text were so realistic, the faces of the women were so clear, and the suffering was written so informatively that I was so emotional that I could not get rid of the mood of this book in my mind for several days.
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A little girl who is restless every Thursday, her father is not by her side every day, because she is "Harami", an illegitimate daughter. If the mother was willing to send her to a nursing home, the mother would not live in isolation and live in a mud house on the hillside. This love of the mother is sacrificial. On the day Mariam willfully went into town to find her father, he saw him for the first time and turned her away with a cold and evasive look. Father's love is conditional, and the daughter is also required to assist in the performance of this "undignified" blood relationship. Her mother lost her fighting spirit, and on this day, Mariam was abandoned by her parents. Unable to refuse the orphan girl's father, she had to take her into the house, and let the three decent wives in the family quickly arrange the marriage of the 15-year-old girl and let her go to another place. What a marriage it was, Mariam was betrayed, and betrayed by her father, who had loved the most.
Unhappy mothers often tell their children that happiness is impossible. This is not so much a teaching as a curse. In Afghanistan before the War, women were fighting for the right to freedom, but poor Mariam was taken from her father's home by a strange husband, and without even smelling the breath of freedom and happiness, she fell into the prison of marriage. What is that kind of marriage that is not prison? The old-fashioned husband does not allow his wife's face to be seen by others, must wear a cloth card, wrap it from head to toe, and trip over himself when he walks; the husband is the only hegemon, because women have no right to work. Between Mariam and Rashid, there was only a master-servant relationship, and the love between men and women was reduced to a process of reproduction. However, poor Mariam was not able to give birth to a child. After a series of failed attempts, she became the target of his violent anger.
In other words, it's an old contemporary social story that takes place in which we gleefully talk about fashion and job hopping. If you've ever been confused about the war in Afghanistan, the story of Mariam's life is enough to impress you with every war. War is just as cruel no matter who invades or resists. The outside world is blocked by war, and women will only feel doubly unhappy in their prison-like homes. For women who are blindfolded with a burqa, surviving means surviving the war, and even more so means fleeing from marriage.
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Lyra, who grew up in the war, was the child of Mariam's neighbor. She was beautiful, young, and had a beloved lover—Tariq, a handsome young man with prosthetic legs. The life of a young girl is full of hope, and happiness seems to be at your fingertips. Lyra's parents were enlightened intellectuals, and from an early age she believed that women had the right to freedom, choice, and love. Lyra, who followed her father to the top of the Big Buddha, longed for a new life, but when the Tariq family decided to flee to Pakistan, she promised love with her virgin body, and even if she was painfully separated, she still did not lose her faith in the future. However, the fire not only took the lives of her two brothers, but also their parents while they were about to flee. Lyra's home was like a dream, or a shattered porcelain plate; Lyra, in an instant, became a lonely person.
It was Mariam and Rashid who rescued Lyra. The man forged all good deeds with absolute shamelessness, married Lyra, and even made her believe that Tariq was dead. Lyra was pregnant, and decided to marry at the moment, because she had to fulfill her responsibility for the crystallization of love, and she had to keep her children alive, so she sacrificed herself in a tragic marriage. It's like fighting a war, having to give up the pawn in order to fulfill the most important thing— even if the pawn is yourself.
"Afghan Girl" Sharbat Gula, Nashba Refugee Camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984, © Steve McCurry
The fates of Lyra and Mariam are entangled. Mariam's feelings were so simple that at first she just hated Lyra. And Lyra's humiliation finally impressed Mariam. A wicked husband will also increase the solidarity of two good wives. The birth of the child's pink and innocent child completely changed the lives of the two women, and Mariam experienced the forbearance and greatness of the connotation of "mother", and realized how noble and comforting the new life was. The two mothers decide to run away together, and Lyra, who yearns for freedom, refuses to give up the opportunity to pursue freedom...
As if a woman from two generations was blindfolded by the same bucca and struggling out of the same tragedy, the brave Lyra broke the curse in Mariam's heart, and Mariam, who was willing to die in a "worthy" mood, also changed Lyra's understanding of the true meaning of "love" and "sacrifice". She became the heaviest love of the second half of her life besides love and affection, containing compassion, compassion and pity for the same disease.
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Love, life and death, childbearing, and war are all strong needles that lead to great changes in women, but the female companion who struggles together in a desperate situation- even if she is illiterate, wooden and dreamless- will be the most precious friend. For women, love may be simple, and the friendship between women who are connected by life and death is obviously more rare. So, when Lyra and Tariq are reunited and living happily together, what makes her wake up from her heartbroken dream is Mariam, whom fate has given her.
Husseini in the literary scene
The Kite Chaser
By Khaled Al-Husseini, translated by Li Jihong
● A lifelong five-star novel that has touched hundreds of millions of readers around the world and is worth sharing with friends
● Best-selling book of wonders around the world
● Gao Yuanyuan emotionally recommended, the source of Dou Jingtong's creative inspiration, Zhu Yilong and Zhang Yishan recited it affectionately
● Thousands of times for you!
"Brilliant Thousand Suns"
● Author of the classic best-selling novel "The Kite Chaser", dedicated to the moving story of all the women who have encountered misfortune and perseverance
● The women's version of "The Kite Chaser", they emit a light as bright as a thousand suns
● Millions of readers are touched by the recommendation, and every time I read it, it is shocking
"Echo of the Mountains"
By Called Al-Husseini, translated by Kang
Write about sixty years of misery and joy forged by poverty and war, how they loved, how they were hurt, how they betrayed and sacrificed each other
● More fluent than "The Kite Chaser" and more exquisite than "Brilliant Thousand Suns". Throughout our lives, we have been searching for the man we lost in the first place
● Millions of readers emotionally recommend, hundreds of times, words tears
The Prayer of the Sea
[United States] by Khaled Al-Husseini, translated by Qin Juefei
● Yao Chen sincerely recommends: This is a sad story, but it is as touching as "The Kite Chaser". I still read to my children so that they should never give up hope for a better home at any time
● The famous British illustrator Dan Williams dedicated himself to creating exquisite illustrations
● There are wars in this world, and there are people who have been forced to leave their homes, accompanying their children and praying for world peace