The main line of this book tells the story of a brother and sister who have been forged by poverty and war for 60 years. This novel is similar to a collection of short stories. The whole novel consists of nine chapters, and nine different characters are used as the first person to tell the story.
Nine chapters, nine different seven characters, we can always find our lost part in them when we stumble forward.
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That night, as always, my father told Abdullah and Paley a story:
The devil came to the small village and took a child away. His father had to sacrifice his favorite little son to save the whole family. In the gossip, my father could not forgive himself, so he embarked on the road of seeking revenge. In the devil's castle, the father met his little son. It turned out that the devil put his children in an isolated place and lived a happy life, a life that his father could not give. The devil let his father decide whether to take him away or stay. In the end, my father chose to forget, and all the memories were washed away by the devil. Later, my father and his family lived a good life, but every night, my father always heard a bell.
This story is only a reflection of the whole story, because the next day, my father will send Paley away. Sixty years later, brother and sister reunited, but my brother couldn't remember the person who had troubled him all his life, which became an irreparable regret for him all his life.
02
Brother Abdullah is seven years older than sister Paley. He has always regarded her as a treasure, loved and cared for her, and even exchanged his only pair of shoes for a feather for her. He did his best as a brother.
I saw the sad fairy.
Stay in the shadow of the paper tree
I know the sad fairy.
The evening breeze blew her away.
This lullaby used to be sung by his mother, but now he sings it to his sister.
However, after coming out of this desert to Kabul, everything is over and gone. It's gone. disappear
My father sold Parry to the rich Wahdati couple because his family was poor. Abdullah began to cry, and Parry's face was filled with happiness. But what can Abdullah do? Can do, just move on. Even if Abdullah shouted at the top of the mountain, the mountains could only sing back. The most painful thing in the world is to lose love. And when everything fell silent, no one mentioned it again, and everything seemed to have never happened. For Abdullah, Paley always comes uninvited and lingers, as if standing by her side all the time. Sometimes, he dreams that he is alone in the desert.
A feather. Small. The yellow one.
And abdalla can only move forward with his eyes open. He thought, he hoped that one day. See you again.
03
This chapter is about Parvana and her sister Masooma. Parvana is the stepmother of Abdullah and Parry. She was born in Shadbagh and grew up with her brother Nabi and twin sister Masooma. Parvana is jealous that her beautiful sister can be favored by people. Compared with others, she is just an ugly person. Masooma, a beautiful girl, always receives letters from boys and always gets compliments from others. Although they are twins, Parvana is biased because she is a little ugly. Later, both sisters fell in love with Abdullah's father, Sabl. Finally, Parvana pushed his sister off the branch, and Masuma was paralyzed. Tortured by guilt, Parvana began to take care of Masooma's life. Finally, Masooma persuaded Parvana to abandon himself in the wilderness and wait to die. Then Parvana married Sabl who lost his wife.
I like a story told by Sabl about a big oak tree. This is a magical tree. If you want to make a wish, kneel under it and whisper. If the tree promises to help you realize your wish, it will drop ten leaves on your head, no more, no less.
Parvana and Masooma are not enemies. They have a good relationship. When someone bullies them, my sister always stands up and speaks for her. When they were little girls, they were also face to face, curled up under the covers, whispering and giggling, and they were very happy at that time. Even after paralysis, my sister didn't retaliate, and she took care of her wholeheartedly.
In this way, the bridge that two sisters hurt each other because they fall in love with the same person is common in all kinds of works, and it also makes people cry. Feelings are really unspeakable things. Devil and angel are always two sides of the same coin. Love makes people become angels, hate makes people fall into the devil.
04
This chapter tells an unknown past in the form of letters. The writer is Nabi, Parvana's brother and Abdullah's uncle.
Nabi is inconspicuous under the cover of other characters in the whole novel, but it is under his arrangement that Vahdati and his wife adopt Paley. He was hired as a driver by Mr. Wahdati, and then gradually fell in love with Mr. Wahdati's wife, Nila. After learning that Nella was unhappy because she had no children, he arranged for Sabl to sell Paley to her, hoping to win her heart. Nella took Parry to Paris after her husband had a stroke. Nabi gave up the idea of pursuing Nella and stayed to take care of his boss alone. Later, he found that Mr. Vahdati had a crush on himself for a long time. Although it was hard to accept at the moment, I stayed with him all my life. Since then, I have been living in Vahdati's house. After the collapse of the Taliban, I rented my house to Marcos, a foreign doctor who came to Afghanistan to provide medical assistance.
After reading the last chapter, I really hated Nabi for breaking up a family-of course, he was not bad himself. But when I read this chapter, I forgave his story. He is a good driver, a good cook and a good servant. He knows his boss's likes and dislikes, quirks, temper and rules like the back of his hand. Mr. Vahdati is a lonely man. He married Nyla, but there was not much affection between them.
However, Nabi was deeply attracted by Nella at first sight. He likes Nella, always eager to chat with her, always trying to get close to her, happy for her happiness, and lonely for her sadness.
Nabi paid for Nella He gave her everything he had. In order to win her heart, he arranged to adopt Paley. Gave her a gift that no one with more prospects can give, and gave it so thoroughly and happily. In him, I saw a trace of love, a man's comment on love. Although he hurt a family, he also created a family.
Mr. Wahdati is a cold and lonely person. After the stroke, Nila left him to Paley, and Nabi took the responsibility of taking care of the boss. One day, when Nabi was packing up his old things, he found a sketch book-Mr. Wadat's, each with the same theme, which was Nabi's every move.
It's you, Nabi.
It's always been you.
Then I also read the following words and felt very embarrassed. Mr. Wahdati fell in love with Nabi. At first I thought it was just an ordinary master-servant relationship. Even if I am by going up one flight of stairs, it is friendship or brotherhood. Unexpectedly, it was a love from the beginning. Actually, this paragraph embarrassed me. I have cancer.
Original text:
"I need to tell you that even this once, I have always loved you for a long time, Nabi, please don't be angry."
It turns out that love really has nothing to do with gender and romance.
I thought of a sentence:
Are love and like synonyms?
If you like a flower, just pick it; If you love a flower, you will water it.
05
The focus of this chapter is to help Luo Shi, an orphan who was seriously injured in a hospital in Afghanistan. Three people face an orphan in a miserable situation. How do they help and why do they get hurt?
Amra is a nurse from Bosnia who works in a hospital in Afghanistan. During this period, she has been taking care of Luo Shi, an Afghan orphan who was seriously injured, and later adopted her as her daughter. I like this role. She is just an ordinary nurse. Like thousands of doctors in Qian Qian, she is also an angel, bringing a glimmer of hope to this war-torn land and countless injured hearts.
Idris is an Afghan-American doctor, the son of Nabi and Wahdati's neighbors, who fled Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion. In 2003, I returned to Afghanistan with my "narcissistic and naive" cousin Timur, hoping to take back the land left by my family. During his stay in Afghanistan, he met Luo Shi, was moved by her tragic situation, and became friends with her. So he planned to fund Luo Shi to go to the United States for surgery, but when he got home, he lost the motivation to help her.
War is always the most cruel, which not only brings great destruction, but also indirectly distorts human nature. It is not an exaggeration to say that the family is ruined and the people are not happy. Today, there are still some areas at war. I want to say that my wish is world peace.
Idris was outraged by Luo Shi's misfortune, cared for Luo Shi, loved her as his own child, and promised to fund Luo Shi's operation in the United States. Back in the United States, more and more trivial matters made him have a headache because of his work and family, so he lost the motivation of initial funding. Stay away from war and return to normal life. Without passion and blood, it is more mediocre. Idris is a caring and capable person, but he is also a coward and chooses to escape in the face of reality. You can't blame him blindly. He represents a large number of people. He is just an ordinary person. As Husseini said, this is the biggest difference between exiled Afghans and native Afghans.
Later, his usually arrogant and careless cousin Timur gave Luo Shi the greatest help, funded Luo Shi to complete the operation, gave Luo Shi a future and gave her everything. Although Idris gave Luo Shi love and companionship, he also broke his promise to Luo Shi, personally ruined a child's dream and hurt a hopeful heart.
The world is not fickle. There are thousands of human angels like Amra Timur in Qian Qian, who maintain their love with their meager strength.
06
Nella has had no contact with Nabi since she took Parry to Paris. What happened to them? This article tells the life of Nella and Paley.
Nila Wahdati, a young Afghan poetess, is extremely beautiful, but she is always dissatisfied with life and is famous for her sexual suggestion in her poems. Before the whole story happened, her uterus was removed due to illness and she lost her fertility. Later, she married Wahdat, a wealthy businessman in Kabul, but her married life was not happy. Under Nabi's arrangement, she bought Paley as her daughter. After her husband had a stroke, she took Paris to settle down, where she had a fruitless relationship with another man and finally committed suicide. Nella is a talented writer and poet. She is "full of anger, ambition, insight, fragility and narcissism" and has a deep gap with her father. Under those beautiful, cruel and sad words, she has a fragile heart.
Paris, after arriving in Wahdat, gradually forgot her brother Abdullah. After all, she is still young. After her mother Nyala came to Paris, she missed Vakhdati's home and Vakhdati's father. However, Paley's life did not have much ups and downs. She liked studying mathematics, and later became a professor of mathematics at a university in Paris, which was quite successful. She had a fruitless and ignorant love, found a lover worthy of being entrusted for life and had a complete family. Even if Nella didn't give her too much maternal love, she didn't cheat her and took good care of Nella who was sick. Without the previous story, Paley's life is perfect, just like the life of most ordinary people. However, there must be a period of twists and turns, a painful past, which often makes her feel something is missing and has an impulse to cry.
"The sunset falls behind the mill, forever, forever, at the end of heaven and earth, hazy, hazy, are hazy mountains."
07
Adel grew up in an isolated mansion in Novi Sadbagh. He always saw his father donate money to help others and build schools, thinking that his father was a war hero. However, the appearance of a father and son made him gradually understand his father's real evil deeds. It turned out that his father was a war criminal who made huge profits by drug trafficking. He not only transformed the original Shadbagh into Novi Sadbagh, but also brutally killed Guram's father and Abdullah's half-brother who came to seek justice. After this incident, Adele suffered a great blow and her heart was extremely painful. But I finally realized that I would "gradually and imperceptibly accept this new identity", even though "at this moment, it is still like a wet sweater, which makes him feel stinging".
Adele's life is carefree and step-by-step under the arrangement of her father, just like a caged bird, never knowing how dark the real world outside is. His father is a hero in his heart. He is a good father, but not a good man.
Gholam's appearance broke Adele's boring "cage" life, and the two children soon established friendship, playing football and playing together. This short friendship was Adele's happiest time. But when all this is lost, Adele will go back to her original life, and she can only learn to endure the unthinkable.
Life is a process from continuous possession to continuous loss. Some things are lost and gone when you walk. The so-called growth is nothing more than a world outlook, a process of continuous collapse and reconstruction.
08
Marcos is a plastic surgeon from Greece. His childhood friend Celera was injured in the face by a vicious dog and disfigured by bad plastic surgery. This eventually inspired him to become a plastic surgeon. He traveled around the world with Celera's photos and worked as a medical volunteer in developing countries around the world. In 2002, at the invitation of Amra, he went to Afghanistan to help local children, where he met Nabi.
Max was twelve when he met Sally. At first, Marcos refused and rejected Sally's attitude, which repeatedly hurt her self-esteem. Fortunately, Marcos has a tough and tough mother, which forced him to accept Sally's ugly appearance. In this way, the two children gradually established a friendship and often went to the seaside to play together. They also took the first and most important photo of Max's life with their own cameras.
Marcos dreamed of traveling around the world and finally left his mother for a journey, but her mother didn't support him. Later, Marcos entered medical school and became a plastic surgeon to help local children in Afghanistan. His mother also changed her mind and supported Marcos' cause, and she was proud of it. People often say that there are no parents in the world, which is true, but when we really understand these hidden loves, things change. The tree wants to keep quiet, but the wind will not stop; My son wants to serve his parents when they are old, but they are gone. We should do it and cherish it.
09
Fate goes on and on, and finally Bismarck deserves 2 1 meditation every night. After 60 years, Paley finally found the missing one. However, fate always likes to play tricks on people. At this time, Abdullah didn't know that this person in front of him was his sister Paley, whom he had been pursuing all his life.
Abdullah finally settled in the United States after traveling in Pakistan. He opened an Afghan restaurant there, got married again and again, and had a daughter. Abdullah gave his daughter the same name as his sister, and often told her stories about herself and her sister. After his wife died, Abdullah was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Harmo's disease (Alzheimer's Harmo's disease) and lost his memory. When he was reunited with his sister, he didn't recognize her. Just vaguely remember a tune:
I saw the sad fairy.
Stay in the shadow of the paper tree
Somehow, they will eventually find another forgotten lyric, that inseparable brotherhood, and sleep under the apple tree in their dreams.
During this period of time, God met with no answer and sang back on the mountain. ...
Chapter 9, the echo between Jiu Feng, I was moved nine times. Everything starts now and ends in another place. This is a whole world surrounded by mountains, such as brotherly love that spans time, the trans-gender feelings between Su Weiman and Navi, the complicated mother-daughter relationship between Parry and Nyla, and Parry's love for children. Here, it tells the story of memory and forgetting, affection and humanity, and inner voice.
There are many characters in the book, and there is no distinction between primary and secondary, because in other people's tracks, they may be supporting roles, but in their own tracks, everyone is their own protagonist. ...
Compared with Husseini's The Kite Runner, the story in this book is more real and the characterization is more delicate. I will always remember two scenes: Babajiang pulling a cart and Paley sleeping on his brother's lap; When Paley finally remembered his childhood in his later years, he shouted "Brother".
I don't know how to end it in the end. I saw someone commenting on Dragon Eight. All feelings are bitter, and no one is disappointed. Perfect for this.
Text: Mr. Mu Xiaoyi
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