1, "The Kite Runner"
The novel "The Kite Runner" is a first-person account of an Afghan immigrant boy in the United States and his redemption process of the mistakes he made in his childhood as an adult. transgressions. The plot spans from the 1950s to the 21st century, and the book is similar to an autobiographical novel, with the main character's experiences and background very similar to the author's own. The protagonist was born in Afghanistan as a child in the upper class, and his father was a businessman who had built up a good reputation in the region. The main character, due to his childish selfishness, wants to get all of his father's love and is therefore always jealous of his father's warmth towards his servant's children. The main character's childhood character is weak, the servant's child is brave and loyal, the imbalance of the main character later used dishonorable means to set up the servant's family, resulting in the servant's family living in a foreign country, and then the outbreak of the war in Afghanistan, the main character's family was forced to leave the United States. Later, his father's partner, who was familiar with the situation, encourages the hero to go back to Afghanistan to look for the servant's children before he passes away, and through his own efforts to assuage his own guilt over the years. Already a successful businessman, the main character musters the courage to return to his homeland for the first time like a man, in the midst of the barren landscape and the brutal reality of being ruled by the Taliban, he finds an old friend, and after learning a shocking secret, he makes a redemptive effort to finally complete the growth of a man in a touching way.
2. "Tears of an Elephant"
While Jacob never talks about the past, an unspoken secret still lies dormant in the depths of his ninety-something year old mind.
Jacob's simple life with no clothes and no food came to an abrupt end at the age of 23: his parents were dead, he was penniless, and he was forced to flunk out of his prestigious veterinary school. By chance, he became a veterinarian for the "Benzini Brothers' Greatest Circus in the World," traveling along the railroad lines and experiencing the most bizarre aspects of the American Depression in the 1930s. The circus, a world where life and death are presented in their own unique way. Here, freaks and clowns take turns performing, and joy and sorrow are played out simultaneously.
For Jacob, the circus is his salvation, but it's also a purgatory on earth, a place where his dreams reside and displacement begins. ...... He falls in love with circus star Marlena - the beautiful and pathetic Marlena who has been wrongly married to August, the circus director who is handsome on the outside and brutal on the inside. An elephant named Rosie, the circus owner's treasure that he has staked his fortune on, is unable to understand even the simplest of commands. Whimpering, wailing, and howling, Rosie suffers daily under August's brutal hook. Jacob, Marlena, and Rosie, two elephants dancing, leaping, flipping, and twirling in one glorious moment of struggle, cannibalism, and survival, relying on each other and trusting each other, searching for a way out that is as romantic as it is horrifying. And it becomes a secret Jacob has kept for seventy years.
3. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MET IN HEAVEN
His name was Eddie, and on his eighty-third birthday, he perished on a playground to save a girl in danger in a sudden accident. When he wakes up, Eddie is in paradise, and realizes that it is not a pastoral Eden, but an overlapping reenactment of a slice of life on earth. Five people whom Eddie remembers or ignores or forgets take turns to appear on the stage, leading him to search for the time that has passed and to inquire about the riddle of life. Invisibly, there seems to be a huge chain between heaven and earth, of which Edie is only one link.
4. "Tuesdays With Me"
This is a true story: Murray, a professor of social psychology in his seventies, suffered from myasthenia gravis in 1994 and died a year later. As Murray's favorite student in his early years, Mitch went to his door every Tuesday during his 14 weeks of lingering illness to listen to his final teachings, and after his death, he put his teacher's words of wisdom into a chain entitled "Tuesdays With".
5. The Time Traveler's Wife
If life were a journey, Henry's would surely be a more circuitous one than the norm, suffering from chronic time dislocation and wandering unknowingly between times. He thought he was meeting twenty-year-old Claire for the first time when he was twenty-eight, while Claire said, "I've known you since I was a child"; years after marrying Claire, Henry suddenly found himself back in his childhood again, and this time meeting six-year-old Claire.
Because of those involuntary disappearances, Henry would witness his young self encountering those passages over and over again, while he could only watch and repeatedly savor the joy, sadness and pain.
But what of Claire, who walks the normal journey of time? She is left far behind by her husband and anxiously longs for her lover to return soon. Though Claire has time, she can only touch it by touching Henry. What filters the scorching love of these two lovers, and what pushes them to bravely explore the complicated and intertwined destinies, finally making even time become insignificant in front of love?
6. 'I'm Waiting for You in the Rain'
My name is Enzo. I always thought I was human, and I always thought I was different from other dogs. I was just stuffed into a dog's body, and the soul inside was the real me. Here is a record of the storms and sorrows I spent with my master Danny: when his wife died a tragic death, when his in-laws turned against him, when he was shackled and suddenly arrested, I was the only one who knew the truth. But I'm just a dog, I can't pronounce words, I can't speak ...... Now I'm old and about to leave this world. I want to share my story with you, if you are willing, open the book, I'm waiting for you in the story ......
7, "Brooklyn's Ridiculousness"
This book is about a kind of put down after the state of life, the hope of life is often full of inadvertent, when you think you are ready to give up. Only when a person is in a state of "letting go" is the initial and the best. But when the story is over, you will feel grateful to the author that in this gray world, in these dim times, in this book, you will find a sense of community among people, a sense of belonging, affection, love, friendship and so on, and you will feel full of fighting spirit and hope for life again.
8, "The Voice of Heaven"
If you feel despair about life, after reading this book, you will understand: every day you can find a gift given to you by life, and you can discover the true meaning of the beautiful life from it, and find your own. Just open the eyes of your heart and you will find a beautiful gift waiting for you every day, it may be as tiny as a ray of light or a beautiful leaf, or it may be a great joy. Sometimes these gifts are hard to spot and you have to put in a little effort to find it.
9. The Disappearing Horizon
There are sacred snow-capped mountains, deep canyons, dancing waterfalls, serene lakes surrounded by forests, herds of sheep and cows wandering in beautiful meadows, mirror-like skies, and glorious temples, all of which are breathtakingly beautiful. Pure, hospitable people warmly welcome guests from afar. This is the holy land of religion, the paradise on earth. Here, the sun and the moon are moored in your heart. This is the legendary Shangri-La.
10, "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
"The Kite Runner" author's second work, Khaled? Hosseini in "A Thousand Splendid Suns" shows half a century of Afghan women have to endure all kinds of. Individuals, who have to endure the constraints of hunger and sickness. Families had to endure the trauma of war, the displacement of refugees. The country had to endure the war between the former Soviet Union, the Taliban and the United States. This is a history of Afghan endurance.
About unforgivable times, impossible friendships and indestructible love. Once again set against the backdrop of war-torn Afghanistan and spanning three decades, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a delicate and touching portrayal of women struggling under the old family system in Afghanistan, the hopes, the loves, the dreams and all the losses they harbor.
11, "One Day Reborn"
Let some long-gone loved one spend another day with you. Just one day. Do you need that chance if you can have it as you wish? The opportunity, at an awkward moment, falls to Charles Bennett. The retired baseball player, worn down by frustration and alcohol, could no longer find any reason to live - his career was hitting a wall, his marriage was falling apart, he was addicted to alcohol, he was a renegade, and even his daughter's wedding wouldn't let him show up. ...... Charles got the idea of a lighthearted life. He thought that as long as a high-speed car, a forgetful run, you can wave goodbye, do not take away a cloud. However, in the lightning, his physical body wandered between this realm and the other side; suddenly awakened, he was surprised to see his mother, who had died unexpectedly many years ago.
Mother led him into yesterday. Yesterday is one familiar stranger after another, one tragic comedy with weird angles after another, and one string of knots that entangle each other. Along the path that his mother pointed out, where did Charles's homecoming lead? Will one day's epiphany be enough to change a lifetime?
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When I opened my eyes again, I was surrounded by falling twigs, branches, and leaves. Rocks pressed against my chest and stomach. Lifting my chin, I see it: the baseball field of my youth, bathed in morning light, and the two players' waiting areas on the side of the field, and the handful of rumbling dust where the pitcher stood.
And, my mom, my long dead mom.
......
I could barely move. But her arms were around me, and once more I felt her pick me up, the air cutting across my face. All I could see was darkness, as if we were flying behind a long black curtain. Suddenly the black curtain pulled away and stars appeared before my eyes. Thousands of stars, and she put me down and laid me down on the wet grass, giving my wounded soul back to the world.
12, "On the Road"
"One of the greatest experiences of my traveling life was about to begin. In a van with a flatbed trailer trailing in the back lay about half a dozen lads ...... I ran up to them and asked, 'Is there room?' They said: 'Yes, get on, there are seats for those who get on.' Before I could take my seat in the carriage, the van drove off. My body swayed and one of the passengers helped me and I took the opportunity to sit down. Someone handed me a bottle of bad whiskey ...... The drizzle in the Nebraska sky had been non-stop, yet there was something poetic about it, and I slugged it down. 'Aha, we're on the road again!' A young guy with a baseball cap on his head called out ...... They said they were going to hitchhike all over America this summer. 'We're going to Los Angeles now.' ...... 'To what?' 'What for? We can't say, don't worry about it.' ......"--Excerpt from On the Road
13. I Killed Myself When I Was Five
The book is written in the voice of Borden, an eight-year-old boy, and describes the lonely world of a child's mind, which is not understood by adults, and which has always been distorted. The story is quite touching as it depicts the lonely world of a child's mind that is not understood by adults and is always being distorted, and he can only survive in a world that is alien to him. In this, Borden's simplicity contrasts sharply with the complexity of the adult world, and his inability to escape from the situation of those pesky grown-ups around him is easily reminiscent of the French classic "The Little Prince"; while Borden's predicament of being seen as beyond the norm and not being understood, as well as his lack of knowledge of the adult world, is also often quoted as a comparison to Holton of "Catcher in the Rye".
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