《追风筝的孩子》
加州‧三藩巿 2000年 San Francisco, California
- 准备好了？ - 好了，去吧 - You ready? - Yeah. Let's go.
- 就是那些吗？ - 应该是 - Is that what I think it is? - I think so.
- 紧张吗？ - 只要没拼错我的名字就好了 - You nervous? - As long as they spelled my name right.
- 你要独处一下吗？ - 我想你陪着我 - You want a moment alone with it? - I want you right here with me.
是它了 There it is.
你的结晶品 Your baby.
我去接吧 I'll get it.
喂？ Hello?
阿米尔 Amirjan.
是拉辛汗？ Rahim Khan?
你还记得我，真好 It is kind of you to remember.
我一直挂念着你，阿米尔 I have missed you, Amir jan.
听到你的声音，真好 It's good to hear your voice.
你必须回家 You should come home.
家？ Home?
现在未必是好时候 I don't know if now's such a good time.
现在是很坏的时候，但你一定要来 It's a very bad time, but you should come.
总有方法令事情变好的 There is a way to be good again, Amir.
阿富汗首都喀布尔 1978年 Kabul, Afghanistan
拿着线轴，好好拿着 Take the spool. Hold it right.
把线给我 Give me string!
好好拿着线轴 Hold the spool right.
- 我割断了他的风筝 - 赢了 - I cut him! - Victory!
赢了 Victory!
这边 This way!
你去哪里？ Where are you going?
去找它，它掉到那边 Catch it, it's going this way!
我们追不到它了 We're losing it!
相信我 Trust me!
你在这儿做什么？ What are you doing here?
过来坐下吧 Come sit, Amir.
你在浪费时间 You're wasting time here.
风筝飞了去另一边 The kite went the other way.
它会回到这边 It will come this way.
- 你怎知道？ - 我就是知道 - How do you know? - I know.
但你怎知道？ But how?
我有骗过你吗？ Have I ever lied to you?
我怎知道？ How should I know?
我情愿吃泥沙 I'd rather eat dirt.
你真的会去做？ Would you really do that?
- 做什么？ - 吃泥沙，如果我叫你去 - Do what? - Eat dirt if I told you to.
如果你叫，我会去做 If you asked, I would.
但你真的会要我这样做吗？ But would you really ask me to do such a thing?
你傻的吗？ Are you crazy?
你明知我不会 You know I wouldn't.
我知道 I know.
多谢你，老板大人 Thank you, Agha sahib.
我希望他们明天动二 I want them to start building tomorrow.
早就应该动二了 This should have happened a long time ago.
没问题，先生，多谢 Absolutely, Sahib! And thank you.
喀布尔的孤儿不会忘记你 The orphans of Kabul will never forget you.
不知为何... Somehow
我不太相信 I suspect they will.
你知嘛... You know
那笔钱会被官僚吞掉一半 the bureaucrats will steal half the money.
只是一半？ Only half?
他们变懒了 They've gotten lazy.
耶拉先生... Hey, Mister Jaylawni
给我召来清风 Conjure up the winds for me
你差点可以赢他 You could have beaten him.
我？ 你没看到奥玛尔吗？ Me? Weren't you watching Omar back there?
他从未输过 He never loses.
有适合的风筝，今年大赛你一定赢 If you have the right kite, you'll win the tournament this year.
四月革命成功... With the victory of Saur Revolution
令本国有史以来首次... for the first time in the history of this country
在阿富汗人民民主党领导下... the political sovereignty and political power have been bestowed
获得稳定的政治主权和力量 upon the Democratic Party of the People of Afghanistan.
安定之前，肯定会有腥风血雨 This will get bloody before it gets better.
应该没猜错 Usually a safe bet.
他们说共产党在大学搞事 They say the Communists are starting brawls at the university.
上周有个学生被刺伤 A student was stabbed last week.
幸好阿米尔年幼，不用卷入这种事 I'm glad Amir's too young to be involved in all this.
阿米尔？ Amir?
信我，他不会和人争吵 Trust me, he won't be getting into any brawls.
有时看到他和邻家小孩玩耍 Sometimes I see him playing on the street with the neighbourhood boys.
他们推撞他，抢他玩具 They push him around, take his toys from him,
但阿米尔... but Amir,
他永不还手 he never fights back. Never.
他只是不爱暴力 So he's not violent.
其他孩子欺负他时，你猜会怎样？ You know what happens when the other kids tease him?
哈山会出来赶走他们 Hassan steps in and fends them off.
他俩回家时，我问他 And when they come home, I say to him,
“为何哈山的脸受伤了？ ” "How did Hassan get that scrape on his face?"
他答： “他跌倒了” He says, "He fell down."
那孩子缺少了一点东西 There's something missing in that boy.
朋友... My friend,
孩子不是填色册 children aren't colouring books.
你不能随意填上自己喜爱的颜色 You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours.
他不像你，永远也不会像 He's not like you. He'll never be like you.
但留心看，他会好好成长 But watch. He'll turn out well.
小时不会扞卫自己... A boy who won't stand up for himself,
长大了就什么都不会扞卫 becomes a man who won't stand up for anything.
阿米尔 Amir jan,
我可以进来吗？ may I come in?
我想和你告别 I wanted to say goodbye.
我明天要去巴基斯坦了 I'm going to Pakistan tomorrow.
这风筝不错 That's a fine kite.
哈山帮我抢到它 Hassan ran it down.
他有天份 The boy's got a gift.
你在写什么？ What are you working on?
一个故事 A story.
可以给我看吗？ May I read it?
写得不好 It's not very good.
没所谓，我想看 All the same, I'd love to read it.
谢谢，阿米尔 Thank you, Amir jan.
我今晚就看 I'll read it tonight.
他讨厌我... He hates me
因为我害死她 because I killed her.
害死我妈妈 My mother.
阿米尔... Amir,
不要再讲这种话 don't ever say such a thing.
想也不要想 Don't ever think it.
但这是事实 But it's true.
不是，阿米尔 No, Amir jan.
孩子出生，是危险的事 It's a dangerous thing, being born.
对母亲危险 Dangerous for the mother,
对孩子也危险 dangerous for the child.
你父亲愿意为你而死 Your father would die for you.
你知道的... You know that,
对吗？ don't you?
阿米尔 Amir jan.
- 去吧，射它 - 这是不对的 - Come on, do it. - It's wrong, Amir agha.
你可以做少一会圣人吗？ Do you have to be so holy all the time?
只要射一次？ Just one?
只要射一次 Just one.
总有天它会学乖 You'd think one day he'd wise up.
你拿到零用钱了？ You got your allowance?
不如再去看 《七侠荡寇志》 ？ Yeah, how about we see The Magnificent Seven again?
“我们靠子弹，朋友” We deal in lead, friend!
我是哈里的朋友，他说你很穷 I'm a friend of Harry Luck's. He tells me you're broke.
不，我是富翁，劈柴只是兴趣 No. I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire.
有份差事，需要六个人 There's a job for six men
去南部边境，守护一个小镇 watching over a village just south of the border.
敌人的势力有多大？ How big's the opposition?
30枝枪 Thirty guns.
我欣赏你的 “公下对决” 观念 I admire your notion of fair odds, mister.
哈里说你在特拉维斯对付过更多人 Harry tells me you faced bigger odds in the Travis County War.
- 你最喜欢谁？ - 史提夫麦昆 - Who's your favourite? - Steve McQueen.
我爱查理士布朗臣，将来去伊朗吧 I like Charles Bronson. Maybe someday we'll go to Iran.
为什么？ Why?
或许会遇到他 Maybe we'd see him somewhere.
可以叫他签名 I could get his autograph.
- 他不是伊朗人 - 他不是？ - Charles Bronson's not Iranian. - He's not?
那为何他说波斯语有伊朗口音？ So why does he speak Farsi with an Iranian accent?
你们去哪里？ 贱人 Where are you going, faggots?
告诉我： What do you boys think:
如果我付钱给你，叫你做我朋友 If I paid you to be my friends,
那你是我朋友？ 还是我仆人？ would you really be my friends? Or would you be my servants?
阿塞夫，如果你付钱给我们... Gee, Assef, if you were paying us,
那我们就是你仆人 that would make us your servants!
换言之阿米尔其实没有朋友 So I guess Amir has no friends.
我们又没碍着你 We're not bothering you.
错了 Wrong.
你们碍着我 You are bothering me.
阿富汗是普什图人的地方 Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns.
我们才是阿富汗人 We're the real Afghans.
这里不属于扁鼻哈札拉人 Not this flat-nose Hazara.
这些人污染我们士地和血脉 His people pollute our homeland. They dirty our blood.
如果不是你和你爸爸这些蠢材... If idiots like you and your father
收留他们，我们早就摆脱了他们 didn't take these people in, we'd be rid of them.
请你放过我们，大人 Please leave us alone, Agha.
放下它，你这个没娘的哈札拉人 Put it down, you motherless Hazara.
不要骚扰我们 Leave us in peace.
或许你没有发现... Maybe you didn't notice,
我们有三个人，你只有两个 but there are three of us, and two of you.
或许你也没发现，我有丫叉 And maybe you didn't notice that I'm the one holding the slingshot.
算了 Forget it.
下次再和这班贱人算帐 We'll deal with these faggots later.
- 这是什么？ - 拉辛汗给你的 - What's this? - Rahim Khan left it for you.
他说喜欢呢 He liked it.
喜欢什么？ Liked what?
我的故事 My story!
他当然喜欢，因为你很会讲故事 Well of course he liked it. You tell great stories.
“Bravo” ，他写着 “Bravo” "Bravo," he wrote. Bravo!
Bravo？ Bravo?
你知道Bravo是什么意思吗？ Do you know what "bravo" means?
是意大利语 “天才” 的意思 It's Italian for genius.
那个故事说什么？ What's the story about?
有个男人，得到一只魔法杯 It's about a man who finds a magic cup.
他发现只要对着它哭 And he learns that if he weeps into the cup,
他的眼泪就会变成珍珠 his tears turn to pearls.
他很穷...你猜怎样？ He's very poor, you know?
结局是，他站在满山珍珠上 And, at the end of the story, he's sitting on a mountain of pearls
手执血刀，抱着死去的妻子 with a bloody knife in his hand and his dead wife in his arms.
- 他杀了她？ - 对，哈山 - So he killed her? - Yes, Hassan.
这样令自己哭而致富 So that he'd cry and get rich.
对，你很聪明 Yes, you're very quick.
怎样了？ What?
没什么，你吃完早餐了？ Nothing, Amir agha. Are you done with breakfast?
怎样了？ What?
可以问你关于故事的问题吗？ Well, will you permit me to ask a question about the story?
当然 Of course.
为什么那男人要杀自己妻子？ Why did the man have to kill his wife?
因为他每一滴眼泪都会变成珍珠 Because each of his tears becomes a pearl.
对，但为什么他不去嗅洋蒽？ Yes, but why couldn't he just smell an onion?
学校的教士说，喝酒是罪行 The mullahs at school say drinking is a sin.
审判来时，酒徒会被惩罚 They say drinkers will pay when the Reckoning comes.
想知爸爸对 “罪行” 的看法吗？ Do you want to know what your father thinks about sin?
想 Yes.
那我告诉你吧 Then I'll tell you.
首先，你现在必须明白一点 But first understand this and understand it now:
你不会从那些胡子白痴学到什么 You'll never learn anything of value from those bearded idiots.
你指那些教士？ You mean the mullahs?
我该在那班伪善猴子的胡须撒尿 I piss on the beards of those self-righteous monkeys.
他们什么也不会，只会数念珠颂经 They do nothing but thumb their prayer beads and recite a book
那经书还是用他们不懂的语言写成 written in a tongue they don't even understand.
世上只有一种罪行，就是盗窃 There is only one sin. And that is theft.
其他罪行都是盗窃的变种，明吗？ Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that?
不明白，爸爸 No, Baba jan.
如果你杀了人... When you kill a man,
就等于盗窃了一条人命 you steal a life.
偷走妻子拥有丈夫的权利 You steal his wife's right to her husband,
儿女拥有父亲的权利 his children's right to a father.
说谎就夺取别人知道真相的权利 When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.
盗窃是最邪恶的罪行 There is no act more wretched than stealing.
明白了吗？ Do you see?
明白了，爸爸 Yes, Baba.
好 Good.
不断谈罪行，让我又口渴了 All this talk of sinning is making me thirsty.
哈山 Hassan! Hassan!
走吧，他在叫你 Go, he's calling you.
生日快乐 Happy Birthday.
这是美国制造的 It's made in America.
既然你要做我的保镳... I figured, if you're going to be my bodyguard,
当然要有好武器 you need a proper weapon.
多谢，阿米尔大人 Thank you, Amir agha.
来吧，我们出发 Come on, let's go.
你写了什么？ What does it say?
阿米尔和哈山，是喀布尔的苏丹 Amir and Hassan, the Sultans of Kabul.
喀布尔的苏丹 The Sultans of Kabul!
你想听故事吗？ You want a story?
《罗斯坦和索拉博》 Rostam and Sohrab.
又是那故事？ 我讲过50次了 Not them again. I've read you that one fifty times.
不如说 《鲁大人贝》 ？ How about Rudabeh?
你的书，你作主，阿米尔大人 It's your book, Amir agha.
好吧 All right,
就 《罗斯坦和索拉博》 ，你生日嘛 Rostam and Sohrab. It's your birthday.
你爸爸买了新车？ Your dad got a new car?
不就是 《警网铁金刚》 里的车吗？ Isn't that the car they drive in Bullitt?
史提夫麦昆 ！ Steve McQueen!
听说今天有人生日 I heard it was someone's birthday.
今日你做主角，哈山，坐前面 It's your day, Hassan. Why don't you sit up front?
准备好收礼物吗？ Are you ready for your birthday present?
- 是画簿吗？ - 比它更好 - Is it a drawing book? - Better!
- 玩具枪？ - 比它更好 - A toy gun? - Better!
西科叔叔 Uncle Saifo!
好兄弟，很久不见 My brother! It's been too long.
大人家都好吗？ Everyone good?
今天他生日 ，任他选喜欢的风筝 It's his birthday, he can have any kite he wants.
它们在这里 Here they are.
随便选吧 Take your pick.
我要那一只 I want that one.
就要这只 We'll take it.
选得好 A good choice.
那次只是好运 I was just lucky that time.
和运气无关，你技术比他好 It wasn't luck, Amir agha. You're better than him.
我知道你会赢的 I know you're going to win.
你对我太有信心了 You have too much faith in me.
阿里特别为你煮了椰菜花 Ali made the cauliflower especially for you.
对，我每次来，他都煮椰菜花 Yes. Every time I come, he makes the cauliflower.
我知道，你来得太多了 I know. You come here too often.
明天举行比赛？ The tournament's tomorrow?
你和哈山准备好了？ Are you and Hassan ready?
我们已经练习了 We've been practising.
我有提过我那年怎样大人胜吗？ Did I ever tell you about the year I won?
我肯定你对喀布尔每个人都提过 I'm fairly sure you told everyone in Kabul about the year you won.
我割断了14只风筝 Fourteen kites I cut down.
我相信这纪录至今未破 I think that's still a record.
没错，没错，吃东西吧 Yes, yes, yes. Eat.
我相信你今天会令老板大人自豪 I think you're going to make Agha sahib very proud today.
你相信？ You think so?
真主保佑 Inshallah.
很多人呢 It's really crowded.
可能不是放风筝的好日子 I'm not sure it's the best day to fly a kite.
为什么？ Why?
今天是好日 It's a beautiful day.
我们两个对付全个喀布尔 It's the two of us against all of Kabul.
我欣赏你的 “公下对决” 观点 I admire your notion of fair odds, mister.
放吧 Let's fly.
拉低线轴 Put down the spool.
割断它 Take it!
从下面割断它 Take it from under.
好，我去到它下面了 Okay, I'm under.
我们割断了他 ！ We cut him! We cut him!
阿米尔大人 Amir agha!
靠右一点 Go a little to your right.
我们割断了他 ！ We cut him! We cut him!
他们可能会破你纪录呢 They could break your record.
慢慢看吧 Let's see.
好好拿着线轴 Hold the spool right.
割断他！奥玛尔 Take him, Omar!
Omar! Omar! Omar!
Omar!
我割断了他 I cut him!
胜利 ！ Victory! Victory!
- 他割断了多少只？ - 12只 - How many has he cut? - I've counted twelve.
他想打破爸爸的纪录 I think he wants Baba's record.
我们不能让他得逞 We can't let that happen.
最后一只了，奥玛尔大人 Last one, Omar agha.
把线拉前 Pull your string forward.
割断他吧 ！ Cut him!
只剩下他们那对了 It's just the two of them now.
Bravo！ 阿米尔大人 Bravo, Amir agha!
你割断了他 You cut him!
我们赢了 ！ We won! We won!
我去把那只蓝风筝追回来 Amir, I'm going to run that blue kite for you.
哈山！你要把它带回来 Hassan! Come back with it!
为你，走一千遍在所不辞 For you, a thousand times over!
我要这个有什么用？ 是你累我输的 What am I supposed to do with this? You're the reason I got cut!
有看到哈札拉小孩往这边走吗？ Have you seen a Hazara boy come this way?
穿红色外套 Wearing a red chapan.
有个小孩去了那边，手上有只风筝 I saw a boy running that way. He had a kite in his hand.
- 他们应该捉到他了 - 谁？ - They've probably caught him by now. - Who?
那些大男孩在追他 The big boys chasing him.
你的丫叉呢？ 哈札拉仔 Where's your slingshot, Hazara?
你今天没有那么神气了 You don't look so brave today.
不过我肯原谅你，你们说怎样？ But I'm in a mood to forgive. What do you say to that, boys?
很大量 Very generous.
尤其是他上次这么无礼 Especially after the rude manners he showed last time.
原谅你，没事了 Forgiven. It's done.
当然，世上没有东西是免费的 Of course, nothing is free in this world.
要我原谅，就要付出一点代价 My pardon comes with a small price.
没东西是免费的 Nothing is free.
你很幸运呢，哈札拉仔 You're a lucky Hazara.
今天你要付的代价只是那只风筝 Because, today, it's only going to cost you that kite.
公下交易 Fair deal.
- 你们说怎样？ - 简直超值 - What do you think, boys? - More than fair.
阿米尔赢了比赛，我帮他追这风筝 Amir agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him.
这是属于他的 This is his.
忠心的哈札拉仔 Loyal Hazara.
忠心的狗仔 Loyal dog.
你牺牲自己之前，好好想一下 Before you sacrifice yourself for him, think about this, Hazara:
他会为你做同样的事吗？ Would he do the same for you?
你有没有想过... Have you ever wondered why
为何没有别人时，他才和你玩？ he only plays with you when no one else is around?
“为什么？ ” 哈札拉仔 ！ I said, "Why," Hazara!
因为对他来说，你只是只丑样宠物 Because, to him, you're nothing but an ugly pet.
在他发闷时，可以找你玩 Something he can play with when he's bored.
他生气时，就把你踢走 Something he can kick when he's angry.
阿米尔大人和我是朋友 Amir agha and I are friends.
朋友？ Friends?
蠢材！说够了 You fool. Enough of this.
把风筝给我们 Give us the kite.
最后机会 Last chance.
如你所愿 As you wish.
留着它吧 Keep it.
让它提醒你，我接着对你做的事 So it will always remind you of what I'm about to do to you.
没东西是免费的 Nothing is free.
他只是奴仆的儿子 He's just a servant's son.
阿塞夫，我爸爸说这样做是错的 I'm not sure, Assef. My father says it's wrong.
你爸爸是共产党员 Your father's a Communist.
真的要教训一下这只笨驴 And there's nothing wrong about teaching this donkey a lesson.
按下他 Just hold him down.
走吧 Let's get out of here.
你去了哪里？ 我四处找你 Where were you? I was looking for you.
走吧，老板大人会担心 Let's go, Agha sahib will worry.
做得好 Good job.
来吧 Come here.
做得好 Well done.
哈山去了哪里？ Where's Hassan?
他回去睡了 He went back to sleep.
几个星期了，他只想睡 The last few weeks, all he wants to do is sleep.
做完家务，他便爬进毯子里 After chores he just crawls under his blanket.
我可以问问你吗？ Can I ask you something?
是否发生了什么事？ 阿米尔大人 Did something happen, Amir agha?
他有事隐瞒我吗？ Something he's not telling me?
我怎会知道？ 或许他生病吧 How should I know? Maybe he's sick.
人有时会生病 People get sick, you know.
教士想支配我们的灵魂 The mullahs want to rule our souls
共产党则说我们没有灵魂 and the Communists tell us we don't have any.
更重要是，《万世英雄》 上画了 明天去看吧 More importantly, El Cid is playing. We could go tomorrow.
叫哈山一起来吧 Tell Hassan to come with us?
他不舒服 He's not feeling well.
真的？ 他发生什么事了？ Really? What's wrong with him?
可能是伤风感冒吧 He's got a cold or something.
阿里说他在睡觉休养 Ali says he's sleeping it off.
我好几星期没看见你们一起玩 I haven't seen you two playing together in weeks.
发生什么事？ What happened?
没事，他只是有点小病 Nothing. He's just been a little sick.
哈山从没有病过 Hassan never gets sick.
无论发生什么事，及早处理吧 Whatever's going on, you should deal with it before too long.
不要让情况变坏 Take care not to let these things fester.
时间只会令它恶化 Time will only make it worse.
你在读什么？ What are you reading?
给小孩读的书，我想学习 It's for little kids. I just... I'm trying to learn.
我更想听你作的故事 I'd rather hear one of your stories.
我不作故事了 I'm done making up stories.
为什么？ Why?
因为它们很无聊 Because they're stupid.
我不觉得无聊，我喜欢你的故事 I don't think they're stupid. I love your stories.
如果我用它打你，你要怎样做？ What would you do if I hit you with this?
你要怎样做？ What would you do?
还手 ！ Hit me back!
还手 ！ Hit me back.
你是懦夫 You're a coward.
血液对树木有益 Blood's good for the trees.
来吧，寿星仔，进去吧 Come on, birthday boy. Let's go inside.
阿里，准备好一切吗？ Ali, is everything ready?
不用担心，快准备好了 Don't worry, it will be soon.
- 把它移后点 - 好的 - Move it back a little. - Yes, of course.
你有想过请新仆人吗？ Have you ever thought about getting new servants?
为什么我要这样做？ Why would I want to do that?
我猜你没想过，只是随口问问 I guess you wouldn't. It was just a question.
我和阿里一同长大人 I grew up with Ali.
我爸爸收留了他，视如己出 My father took him in, loved him like his own son.
他在我们家40年了，足足40年 ！ Forty years he's been with my family. Forty goddamn years.
你以为我会随便赶他走？ And you think I'm just going to throw him out?
我从来没出手打过你 I've never laid a hand on you,
但如果你再说这种话... but you ever say that again...
你令我蒙羞 You bring me shame.
还有，哈山... And, Hassan...
哈山也绝对不会离开 Hassan's not going anywhere.
明白吗？ Do you understand?
我问你，明白吗？ I said, do you understand?
明白，爸爸 Yes, Baba.
你令我蒙羞 You bring me shame.
穆撒德先生，你好吗？ Massoud jan, how are you?
- 欢迎 - 生日快乐 - Welcome. - Happy birthday.
欢迎 Welcome.
你好，阿米尔，生日快乐 Hello, Amir jan. Happy birthday.
你好，阿米尔，你好吗？ Hello, Amir jan. How are you?
小小心意，不成敬意 It is modest and not worthy of you.
生日快乐 Happy birthday.
哈山说你那本书旧了，有些缺页 Hassan said your copy was getting old, missing some pages.
谢谢 Thank you.
生日快乐，阿米尔先生 Amir.
Happy birthday, Amir jan.
生日快乐 Happy birthday.
- 这西装真有型 - 这派对真好玩，阿米尔 - What a splendid suit. - Great party, Amir.
你不多谢阿塞夫吗？ Aren't you going to thank Assef?
多谢 Thank you.
请随便 Please, enjoy.
你不用招待宾客吗？ Amir jan.
Shouldn't you be entertaining your guests?
我不知你也喝酒 I didn't know you drank.
我喝酒的 Turns out I do.
但只在最重要的场合 But only on the most important occasions.
你有什么心事，可以随时告诉我 You know you can tell me anything you want. Anytime.
我知道 I know.
拿着，我差点忘了给你 Here, I almost forgot.
用来写故事 For your stories.
来吧，你快要错过自己的派对 Come. You're missing your party.
Baba.
有见过我的手表吗？ Have you seen my watch anywhere?
我刚刚买给你的那只？ The one I just bought you?
你不是这么快已遗夫了？ Don't tell me you already lost it.
不，我记得放在房里 No. I know I had it in my room.
我相信你会找到的 I'm sure it'll turn up somewhere.
有什么不妥？ What's wrong?
你完成二作后，带哈山进来 Ali.
When you finish your work, come inside with Hassan.
是，老板大人 Yes, Agha sahib.
你偷了阿米尔的表吗，哈山？ Did you steal Amir's watch, Hassan?
是 Yes.
我原谅你 I forgive you.
我们要走了，老板大人 We're leaving, Agha sahib.
什么？ What?
我们不能再住在这里 We can't live here any more.
我已原谅他，你听不到吗，阿里？ But I forgive him. Didn't you hear me, Ali?
我们在这里已住不下去了 Life here is impossible for us now, Agha sahib.
我们非走不可 We're leaving.
我不理什么手表 I don't care about the watch.
我不明白你为什么要这样 I don't understand why you're doing this.
对不起，但我们已收拾好包袱 I'm sorry, Agha sahib, but our bags are already packed.
我们已做了决定 We've made our decision.
我没有照顾你们吗？ Ali.
Haven't I provided for you?
我对你和哈山不够好吗？ Haven't I been good to you and Hassan?
至少告诉我为什么 At least tell me why.
我不准你这样做 I forbid you to do this!
你听到吗？ Do you hear me?
我不准 ！ I forbid you!
恕我直言，你没权不准我做任何事 Respectfully, you can't forbid me anything, Agha sahib.
我们不再为你工作了 We don't work for you any more.
苏联入侵 1979年12月 Soviet Invasion December 1979
快执行李，只带必需品 Pack a bag. Only what you need.
赶快 Hurry up!
- 他们会来捉我 - 还未肯定呢 - They'll come for me. - We don't know that.
到肯定了才走，就太迟了 Read your history, my friend. By the time we know it, it will be too late.
你知我是什么人、平常怎样说话 You know how I am. You know how I talk.
喀布尔所有人，都听过我骂共产党 Everyone in Kabul has heard me cursing the Communists.
可以帮我看管屋子吗？ 等俄人走了，我们会回来 Will you watch over the house for me? We'll be back when the Russians leave.
如果他们不走呢？ What if they don't leave?
谁都会走，这国家不会善待侵略者 Everyone leaves. This country is not kind to invaders.
你有何打算？ 朋友 And you, my friend?
你会去哪里？ Where will you go?
首先，去巴基斯坦 Pakistan, first.
然后，去任何令这孩子安全的地方 After that, wherever is safest for the boy.
蛇头要每人收5,000元 The smugglers want five thousand a head
才会送你们到巴基斯坦 for safe passage to Pakistan.
我敢肯定他们不收支票 I'm fairly sure they won't take cheques.
若拿我部野马去换呢？ What about a Mustang?
他要和这女士到上车后短叙半小时 He wants a half hour with the lady in the back of the truck.
什么？ What?
不要 No.
兄弟 Brother.
请你叫士兵大人做好心 Please ask mister soldier sahib to show a little mercy.
或许他也有妻子吧 Maybe he has a wife, too.
这是放我们走的代价 It's his price for letting us pass.
我要问他一个问题 I want you to ask this man something.
问他的羞耻心去了哪里 Ask him where his shame is.
他说： 战争无羞耻可言 He says, there is no shame in war.
他错了，战争不能抹杀正义 Tell him he is wrong. War doesn't negate decency.
他说什么？ What did he say?
他说： 用枪射你的快感... He says he'd enjoy putting a bullet in you,
或许和享受她差不多 almost as much as he'd enjoy her.
就算被射一千枪，我也要阻止这事 I'll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place.
- 爸爸，他会杀你 - 我白教你的吗？ - Baba, please, he'll shoot you. - Have I taught you nothing?
叫他最好第一枪就解决我 Tell him he'd better kill me good with the first shot.
否则我死不去... Because if I don't go down,
我会把他碎尸万段 I'm tearing him to pieces, goddamn his father!
你真好心 You are very kind.
不用谢我 It's not worthy of a thank you.
出来，快，出来 Get out. Come on, get out.
快点行，快点 Keep it moving. Keep it moving.
为什么停下来？ Why did you stop?
这上车不能带你过边境 We can't get you across the border in that truck.
我们不够钱贿赂所有俄人 We don't have enough money for all the Russians.
- 那我们怎办？ - 爬入那部车 - So what are we doing? - Go climb into that vehicle.
你说笑吧？ You're joking.
你自己选择，老板大人 Your choice, Agha sahib.
快点爬 Climb up quickly.
转身，爬下去 Turn around and go down.
我会陪着你，去吧 I'm with you. Go.
你看到吗？ You see it?
看到 Yes.
不要怕，我陪着你 Don't be afraid. I'm right here with you.
我无法呼吸，爸爸 I can't breathe, Baba.
想想其他东西...背首诗吧 Think of something else. Think of a poem.
鲁米的诗？ Rumi?
你不是背了一些吗？ You've memorised some, haven't you?
我想听 I want to hear one.
“若我们入睡，我们是衪的梦” "If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones
“当我们清醒，我们在衪掌心里” "And if we come to wake we are in His hands"
继续 Keep going.
“我们流泪时，我们是衪的云雨” "If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of raindrops
“我们欢笑时，我们是衪的闪电” "And if we come to laughing we are His lightning in that moment"
念得好 Good job.
“我们生气争斗，反映衪正发怒” "If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath
“我们和下宽恕，是衪的爱引导” "And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love
“在这复杂尘世，我们何足道？ ” "Who are we in this complicated world?"
加州 ‧ 费利蒙巿 1988年 Fremont, California
要那一包 A pack of those.
- 那是你的车？ - 对 - Is that your car? - Yeah.
- 漂亮的车 - 谢谢 - Beautiful car. - Thanks.
Richard Hidalgo.
Erin Hill.
Denise Hawking.
Damon Hooper.
June Kitagawa.
- 你好 - 你好 - Hi. - Hello.
- 今晚我很高兴 - 那就好了 - Tonight I'm very happy. - Well, that's good.
- 今晚我和儿子喝酒 - 你好 - Tonight I drink with my son. - Hi.
你好吗，朋友？ 陪我们喝酒吧 How are you, my friend? Let's have a drink with us.
- 你想喝什么？ - 苏格兰威士忌 - What you like to drink? - Scotch.
- 三杯苏格兰威士忌 - 我要啤酒 - Three Scotch, please. - I'll have a beer instead. Thanks.
- 白威？ - 好 - Budweiser? - Sure.
谢谢 Please.
我儿子大学毕业了 My son, the college graduate.
- 只是社区大学 - 都是大学 - It's just community college. - It's college.
有一天会成为阿米尔医生 And someday, Dr. Amir!
- 你知我喜欢写作 - 写作？ - You know I want to write. - Write?
我不想当医生 I don't want to be a doctor.
饮胜 Cheers.
再来一杯 One more, sir.
他情愿作故事，也不做医生救人 So instead of being doctor and saving lives,
he wants make up stories.
要赚钱 And for money,
你可以来油站跟我二作 you can work at the gas station with me.
我会将你的文凭挂在墙上 We'll put your diploma on the wall.
随你怎想 Whatever you think.
美妙一击！你看到吗？ Beautiful! Beautiful shot! You see that shot?
我请各位饮酒 A pitcher of beer for gentlemen, please.
饮胜，我儿子今天大学毕业 Cheers. My son, he graduates college today.
- 做得好，恭喜 - 谢谢 - Way to go, man. Congratulations. - Thank you.
干掉俄罗斯 Fuck the Russia!
- 干掉俄罗斯 - 干掉俄罗斯 - Fuck the Russia! - Fuck Russia.
如果今天哈山和我们一起就好了 I wish Hassan had been with us today.
他会替你高兴 This would make him happy.
- 4份，总共6元 - 好的 - Four, so that's $6. - Okay.
Amir jan.
这是将军大人，伊格伯‧塔希利 This is General Sahib, Mr lqbal Taheri.
他在喀布尔得过勋章 He was a decorated general in Kabul.
你的介绍过奖了 Such a lofty introduction.
- 你好 - 你好，将军大人 - Salaam, my child. - Salaam, General Sahib.
阿米尔会成为伟大的作家 Amir is going to be a great writer.
是真主的旨意吧 It is God's will.
你会写我们的国家吧？ Will you be writing about our country?
或者我们的历史？ History, perhaps?
我写小说的 I write fiction.
说故事的人 A storyteller.
人有时要靠故事来消磨时间吧 Well, people do need their stories to divert them occasionally.
- 父亲，你忘了带茶 - 谢谢，乖女 - Father, you forgot your tea. - You are too kind, my dear.
我女儿莎拉雅 My daughter, Soraya jan.
是时候开档了 Well, time to go set up.
祝你的写作顺利 Best of luck with the writing.
- 迟些见 - 再见 - Until later. - Goodbye.
什么？ What?
你对她有好感吧？ She has made an impression on you?
不要乱说，爸爸 Please, Baba.
你在写什么？ What are you writing?
一个故事 A story.
用心写 Write well.
- 赚了多少？ - 160元 - How much? - $160.
不错 Not bad.
- 要可乐吗？ - 好，小心点 - You want a Coke? - Sure. Be careful.
小心什么？ Of what?
将军是正宗普什图人，很重视荣誉 The General is a Pashtun to the root. He has honour and pride.
我只是去买可乐 I was only going to get us Cokes.
总之不要令我丢脸 Just don't embarrass me.
我只要求你这事 That's all I ask.
我不会 I won't.
- 你好 - 你好 - Hi. - Hi.
- 今天将军大人有来吗？ - 有，他去了那边 - Is General Sahib here today? - Yeah, he went that way.
请转告他，我向他问好 Will you tell him that I stopped by to pay my respects?
我会 I will.
谢谢，我叫阿米尔 Thank you. Oh, and my name's Amir.
好让你知道，以便告诉他... In case you need to know, so you can tell him that I stopped by.
我经过向他问好 To pay my respects.
- 我走了，对不起，打扰了你 - 不，你没有打扰 - I'll go now. Sorry to disturb you. - Oh, no, no, you didn't.
那就好 Good.
你在读什么？ Can I ask what you're reading?
你读过这本书吗？ Have you read it?
是个悲哀的故事 It's a sad story.
听说你会写作 I heard you write.
你有兴趣阅读我的故事吗？ Would you like to read one of my stories?
乐意之至 I'd like that.
太好了 Great.
- 这个多少钱？ - 5元 - How much for this? - $5.
- 我只可付3元 - 好吧 - I'll give you three. - Okay.
谢谢 Thank you.
- 你不太会讨价还价 - 我知道 - You're not much of a haggler. - I know.
我带了东西给你 I brought you something.
- 你记得 - 当然 - You remembered. - Of course.
有大志的说书人，真荣幸 Our aspiring storyteller. What a pleasure.
他们说这星期会下雨呢 They say it will rain this week.
难以置信吧？ Hard to believe, isn't it?
听着，孩子... You know, child,
我很喜欢你 I've grown rather fond of you.
你是个好孩子 You're a decent boy.
但就算好孩子，有时也要被人提醒 But, sometimes, even decent boys need reminding.
我有责任提醒你 与你一样的人多的是 So it's my duty to remind you that you are among peers.
这里每个人都喜欢 “说故事” Here, everyone is a storyteller.
代我向你父亲问好吧 Do pass my respects to your father.
好，没问题 Yes, of course.
- 买给孙女？ - 给我的孙女 - For your granddaughter? - My granddaughter.
- 不可能 - 你太客气 - Impossible. - Thank you very much.
给你，祝安好 Here you go. Thank You.
不用客气 - Have a good day. - You're welcome.
Amir.
有什么不妥了？ What's wrong?
没有 Nothing.
将军？ The General?
你没事吧？ You okay?
你没事吧？ You all right?
你一直咳嗽吗？ Have you been coughing?
是 Yes.
你来自哪里？ Where are you from?
密歇根州长大，医科毕业后到这里 I grew up in Michigan. Came out here for medical school.
只要你习惯了加州的太阳... Once you get used to that California sunshine...
- 你祖籍呢？ - 我祖籍？ - But your family? - My family.
我们原本来自俄罗斯 We're originally from Russia.
对不起 I'm sorry.
- 你觉得怎样？ - 都是差不多 - How are you feeling? - The same.
我们有你的化验结果了 We have your results back.
到外面等我 Wait outside for me.
“喀布尔百姓己化成白骨...” "The citizens of Kabul were skeletons now,
“ 白骨在夜巿卖烟草...” skeletons selling naswar in the night market,
“ 白骨喝了一杯又一杯浓茶...” skeletons drinking cups of strong tea,
“ 白骨在月光下玩牌” skeletons playing cards in the moonlight.
“我牙关打震地穿过鬼门关” “他们向我打招呼” They greeted me as I passed, teeth clacking together in their jaws.
“ ‘你好，兄弟’ 他们说” 'Salaam, brother', they said.
“欢迎回家” "Welcome home."
我还未写好 It's sort of a work in progress.
故事名叫 《喀布尔的苏丹》 It's called The Sultans of Kabul.
好名字 Good title.
继续读下去 Keep going.
那就是结局了 That's the end.
那怎算结局 That's not an ending.
那是我的故事，随我喜欢怎样结局 It's my story.
I get to end it how I want.
我受够这些机器了，明天带我回家 I'm tired of these machines. Tomorrow I want you to take me home.
但阿曼尼医生说... But Dr Amani said...
这不到阿曼尼医生决定 It's not Dr Amani's decision.
你怎样了？ 朋友 How are you, my friend?
你怎样了？ 朋友
你不该辛苦自己来探我 You shouldn't have burdened yourselves.
不辛苦 It's no burden.
完全不辛苦 No burden at all.
有什么需要，随别开声吧 If you need anything, ask me like you'd ask a brother.
你来探我... Your coming here
已令我好多了 has brightened my eyes.
你呢？ 阿米尔 What about you, Amir jan?
你有什么需要吗？ Do you need anything?
没有，谢谢，将军大人 No, thank you, General Sahib.
不好意思 Excuse me.
谢谢 Thank you.
那些花很美丽 Those are beautiful flowers.
我为你难过 I'm really sorry.
你最好回房里去 否则你父亲会来捉我 You better go back inside or your father will come after me.
你的故事令我哭了 Your story made me cry.
你读了？ You read it?
我们的秘密？ Our secret?
对 Yeah.
我们的秘密 Our secret.
有什么可以帮你做？ Can I do anything else for you?
不用了，孩子，谢谢 No, child. Thank you.
那你可以帮我做件事吗？ Then I wonder if you'd do something for me.
我想你去提亲 I want you to go khastegari.
请塔希利将军批准我娶他女儿 I want you to ask General Taheri for his daughter's hand.
你肯定？ Are you sure?
从未如此肯定过 More sure than I've ever been about anything.
把电话和电话簿拿来 Then give me the phone and my address book.
现在？ Now?
还等什么？ Then when?
对，好多了 Yes, much better.
你来探我，真有心 It was gracious of you to come.
我打来想问你... I called to ask,
你有没有时间？ if you have time,
我想在明早拜访你 if I may pay you a visit tomorrow morning.
这是件好事 It's an honourable matter.
9时？ Nine o'clock?
很好 That's just fine.
到时见 Until then.
回家吧 Go home.
一小时后打给你 I'll call you in an hour.
好，祝你好运 Okay. Good luck.
喂？ Hello?
将军答应了 The General accepted.
- 他答应了？ - 对，他答应了 - He accepted? - Yes, he accepted.
但莎拉雅想先和你谈谈 But Soraya jan wants to talk to you first.
- 谈什么？ - 谈什么？ - About what? - About what?
我怎知道？ 她想和你谈 How do I know about what? She wants to talk to you.
好，我马上来 Okay. Okay. I'm on my way.
你好吗？ 进来喝杯茶吧 How are you? Come inside and have some tea.
他不是来喝茶的 He didn't come for tea.
不要紧，我们去散步 It doesn't matter, we're going out for a walk.
你愿意嫁吧？ You do want to get married?
- 我指嫁给我 - 当然愿意 - To me, I mean. - Of course I do.
但我要告诉你一件事 It's just... I want to tell you something,
你需要知道的事 something you need to know.
我不想我们之间有隐瞒 I don't want us to start with secrets.
我们原本住在维珍尼亚，搬家是... We lived in Virginia before we came here.
We left because
因为我曾和一个阿富汗男人私奔 I ran away with an Afghan man.
我当时13岁，大概是反叛 I was 18. I guess I thought I was being rebellious.
我们住在一起，差不多一个月 We lived together for almost a month.
那里所有阿富汗人都讲我们闲话 All the Afghans in Virginia were talking about it.
我父亲终于找到来，他在门前出现 My father eventually found us.
逼我回家，我变得歇斯底里... He showed up at the door and he made me come home.
对他说，我恨他 I was hysterical, and I told him I hated him.
数星期后，我们搬*来加州 We moved out to California a few weeks later.
我有很长时间没和父亲说话... I didn't talk to my father for a very long time. And now...
现在，我觉得是他令我有今日 Now I feel like he's the reason why I'm here.
我说的话，令你困扰吗？ Does what I told you bother you?
有一点 A little.
足以令你改变主意吗？ Does it bother you enough to change your mind?
不 No.
差得远 Not even close.
如果可以，我想今晚就娶你 I'd marry you tonight if I could.
你看到什么？ What do you see?
我们往后的人生 The rest of my life.
- 他们真有趣 - 他们是疯的 - They're so funny. - They were crazy.
这是个有趣画面 That's a funny picture.
他们真可爱 They're so cute.
- 阿米尔 - 在这里，爸爸 - Amir jan? - Right here, Baba.
扶我上床 Help me to bed.
没问题 Of course.
我去拿吗啡和水 I'll come back with your morphine and a glass of water.
不用了 No.
今晚不会觉得痛 There is no pain tonight.
过来这儿，乖女 Come here, my daughter.
三藩巿 2000年 San Francisco
这不容易 It will not be easy.
但你一定要来，阿米尔 But you must come, Amir.
好吧 All right.
你是好人 You're a good man.
这是真主的旨意 God willing.
再见 Goodbye.
没事吧？ You all right?
我要去巴基斯坦 I have to go to Pakistan.
巴基斯坦？ Pakistan?
拉辛汗病重了 Rahim Khan is very sick.
你父亲的朋友？ 现在去安全吗？ Your father's friend?
Is it safe right now?
巡回书展怎办？ What about the book tour?
没有拉辛汗，就不会有这些书 There wouldn't be any books if not for Rahim Khan.
巴基斯坦‧白沙瓦 Peshawar, Pakistan
你国家发生的事很恐怖 It's terrible what's happening in your country.
阿富汗人和巴基斯坦人像兄弟 Afghani people and Pakistani people, they are like brothers.
回教徒应该帮助回教徒 Muslim have to help Muslim.
他们称这一带为阿富汗镇 They call this area Afghan Town.
有时我觉得白沙瓦像阿富汗巿郊 Sometimes it feels like Peshawar is a suburb of Kabul.
This way.
阿米尔 Amir jan.
欢迎，欢迎 Welcome, welcome.
你长大成人了 You've become a man.
塔希利将军的女儿？ General Taheri's daughter.
是个大美人 She's a beauty.
有没有孩子？ Any children?
我们尝试过，但... We tried, but
似乎不可能 it doesn't seem possible for us.
谢谢 Thank you.
你住在巴基斯坦多久了？ How long have you been in Pakistan?
未够一年，我在喀布尔不再安全 Less than a year. Kabul is no longer safe for me.
塔利班真的像传闻般恐怖？ The Taliban are as bad as they say?
更恐怖 Oh, worse.
恐怖得多，他们剥削你的人权 Much worse. They don't let you be human.
甚至禁止放风筝 They even banned kite flying.
我有东西给你 I have something for you.
这是什么？ What's this?
看吧 Look.
献给拉辛汗，在我还干懂写作时... "For Rahim Khan, who listened to my stories
他己听我说故事 "before I knew how to write them."
真是荣幸呢！阿米尔 This is a great honour, Amir.
让我带你回美国吧 Let me take you home with me.
我帮你找最好的医生 I can find you a good doctor.
他们经常有新疗法 They're coming up with new treatments all the time.
阿米尔！阿米尔 ！ Amir, Amir, Amir.
我知道美国令你变得乐观 I see America has infused you with her optimism.
但冥冥之中 自有主宰 But there is such a thing as God's will.
过来，坐下 Come, sit.
我叫你来，不是为自己的病诉苦 I didn't bring you here to complain about my health.
原谅我，有件事我必须告诉你 Forgive me, Amir jan. Forgive me for what I have to tell you.
哈山死了 Hassan is dead.
怎样死的？ How?
你们离国后，我替你们打理祖屋 You know I watched over your father's house after you left.
但我请的人，都做不过一年 But none of the caretakers I hired lasted more than a year.
有些不诚实，有些太懒散 Some were dishonest, some lazy.
所以几年前，我去哈扎拉区 So a few years ago I went to Hazarajat
把哈山和他的家人带回来 and brought Hassan and his family home with me.
他妻子叫法佳娜，儿子叫索拉博 His wife, Farzana, and his son, Sohrab.
《罗斯坦和索拉博》 Rostam and Sohrab
有他们陪着真好 It was so good to have them there.
哈山打理房子 Hassan kept the house from falling apart.
法佳娜烧菜煮饭 And Farzana cooked the meals.
很好 It was good.
非常好 Very good.
但我的健康恶化... But when my health began to fail,
阿富汗没有医院帮到我 well, there isn't a hospital in Afghanistan that can help me,
我来了这里 so I came here.
我走后数星期，塔利班去了你祖屋 A few weeks after I left, the Taliban came to the house.
哈山说他帮我看管屋子，但... Hassan told them that he was looking after the house for me, but...
他们骂他是说谎的哈扎拉窃贼 They said that he was a liar and a thief like all the other Hazaras.
要他在黄昏前带家人离开 And they ordered him to leave with his family by nightfall.
哈山不肯走 Hassan wouldn't leave.
他们就把他带到街边，要他跪下... So they took him to the street and ordered him to kneel
然后把他枪毙了 and shot him in the back of the head.
法佳娜大喊大叫，追打他们... Farzana came screaming and attacked them and...
结果也被杀了 They shot her, too.
那他儿子呢？ And the boy?
索拉博呢？ Sohrab?
他住进孤儿院... He is in an orphanage
在十帖 。 斯希附近 in Karteh Seh.
哈山死前一星期，寄了这信给我 Hassan sent this to me a week before he died.
是写给你的 It's for you.
他自己学会了读写 He taught himself to read and write.
他想自己能正确书写，才寄信给你 He didn't want to send you a letter until he could do it properly.
阿米尔 Amir,
你必须回一次喀布尔 you need to go back to Kabul.
我替你准备了司机，他是个好人 I've arranged for a driver. He's a good man.
我不能回去喀布尔 I can't go back to Kabul.
你可以付钱叫人去吗？ 如果是金钱问题，由我支付吧 Can't you pay someone here to go? I'll pay for it if it's a matter of money.
这不是金钱问题 It's not about money.
你是个说故事的人 You are a storyteller.
多少也该感觉到这故事的内情 Some part of you has always known this story.
阿里的第一任妻子来自加荷里 Ali's first wife was from Jaghori.
那又如何？ What does that have to do with anything?
5年后她离开了，两人无儿无女 After five years she left him childless,
她改嫁到霍斯特 and married a man from Khost.
为新丈夫生了3个女儿 She bore that man three daughters.
你明白我在说什么吗？ Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you?
阿里是不育的 Ali was sterile.
但他生了哈山... But he had Hassan.
他养大哈山，但不是他生父 He raised Hassan. He didn't father him.
你父亲对你们同样宠爱 因为你们都是他儿子 Your father loved you both because you were both his sons,
- 而索拉博是... - 不要说 - and Sohrab... - No.
他是你侄儿 He's your nephew.
我不相信你 I don't believe you.
你相信的 You do.
所以你才恐惧 That's what frightens you.
你告诉我... You're saying
我父亲... my father,
这么多年来... for all those years,
都在对我说谎！ lied to me.
请你想想 Please think.
当年对他最重要的是荣誉、 名声 All that a man had back then was his honour, his name,
如果被人讲闲话... and if people talked...
- 他骗了我 - 他骗了你两个 - He lied to me. - He lied to both of you.
现在有方法令事情变好 And now there is a way to be good again.
奉仁爱真主之名... "In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate,
阿米尔大人，我以至诚敬意... Amir agha, with my deepest respects.
我和妻儿祈求你安康... My wife and son and I pray this letter finds you in fine health,
承蒙真主的恩典 and in the light of God's good graces.
我希望有天能收到你的信 I'm hopeful that one day I will hold one of your letters in my hands
知道你在美国生活得怎样 and read of your life in America.
我正在学习英语，很困难的语言 I am trying to learn English. It's such a tricky language.
但总会学成的，我挂念你的故事 But one day, agha. I miss your stories.
附上我和儿子索拉博的合照 I've included a picture of me and my son, Sohrab.
他是个好孩子 He's a good boy.
拉辛汗和我教他读书识字 Rahim Khan and I taught him how to read and write,
希望他长大后，不像他父亲那么笨 so he doesn't grow up stupid like his father.
他还懂得用你送给我的丫叉 And can he shoot with that slingshot you gave me!
但我担心他，阿米尔大人 But I fear for him, Amir agha.
我们年青时的阿富汗早已不在 The Afghanistan of our youth is long dead.
仁爱消夫了，大家都逃不出杀戮 Kindness is gone from the land, and you cannot escape the killings.
杀戮永不止息 Always the killings.
我梦想真主会带给我们更好的干来 I dream that God will guide us to a better day.
梦想儿子长大，成为一个好人 I dream that my son will grow up to be a good person,
一个自由的人 a free person,
有作为的人 an important person.
梦想喀布尔街道再度开花 I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets of Kabul again,
茶馆再度传出乐韵 and music will play in the samovar houses,
风筝再度飞于空中 and kites will fly in the skies.
我梦想有 日你会回到喀布尔 And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul
重游我们的童年故地 to revisit the land of our childhood.
你回来的话，会发现有位挚友 在这里等待着你 If you do, you'll find an old faithful friend waiting for you.
愿主与你同在 May God be with you always.
哈山上 Hassan.
喂 ！ Hello?
你好 Hi.
- 我吵醒你吗？ - 没有 - Did I wake you up? - No.
你没事吧 You all right?
我要告诉你一个故事 I have to tell you a story.
他叫什么名字？ What's his name?
不要搞它 Stop playing with it.
我一定要戴着它吗？ I really have to wear it?
给塔利班发现你剃了须 你知道有何后果吗？ You know what the Taliban will do to you if they see you are clean-shaven?
你为什么回来阿富汗？ So what brings you back to Afghanistan?
来卖掉父亲的产业？ Come to sell off your father's land, pocket the money?
我不是来卖东西的 I'm not here to sell anything.
我要去喀布尔找一个男孩 I'm going to Kabul to find a boy.
男孩？ A boy?
这个男孩？ 哈扎拉男孩？ This boy?
This Hazara boy?
是 Yeah.
他对你很重要吗？ What he means to you?
他父亲对我很重要，他就是相中人 His father meant a lot to me. He's the man in the photo.
己经过身了 He's dead now.
他是你朋友？ It was a friend of yours?
他是我兄弟 He was my brother.
回到祖国，感觉却像过客 I feel like a tourist in my own country.
你在这里一直是过客，只是不自知 You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
- 树木呢？ - 俄人砍掉了 - What happened to the trees? - The Russians chopped them down.
你知道他们在做什么吗？ You know what they're doing?
卖 自己的义肢？ He's selling his leg?
可以卖到好价钱 He can get good money for it.
足够养孩子几星期 Feed your kids for a couple of weeks.
- 那是什么气味？ - 柴油 - What's that smell? - Diesel.
巿内经常停电，唯有靠这种发电机 The power's always going off so people use generators.
你记得童年时街上的气味吗？ Do you remember what this street smelled like in the old days?
烤羊肉串 Lamb kabob.
胡子巡逻队 Beard patrol.
你发什么神经？ What's the matter with you?
什么？ What?
不要盯着他们 Don't you ever stare at them!
明白吗？ Understand me?
绝对不要 Never!
我们想找这个男孩 We're looking for this boy.
对不起，从未见过他 I'm sorry. I've never seen him.
你根本没有认真看照片 You barely looked at the picture, my friend.
我认得这里每个小孩 I know all the children here
对相中人没印象 and that one doesn't look familiar.
请恕我... And now, if you'll permit me...
我们不会伤害他的 We don't mean him any harm.
听着，他不在这里 I told you he's not here.
- 请离开 - 朋友，我们不是塔利班的人 - Now, please, go away. - Friend, we are not with the Taliban.
这位先生想把他带到安全地方 The man wants to take this boy to a safe place.
我认识索拉博的父亲 I knew Sohrab's father.
他叫哈山 His name was Hassan.
这孩子有希望 There's hope for this boy, Agha.
有出路 A way out.
我会带他回美国 I can take him back to America with me.
我是他伯父 I'm his uncle.
我要说的话，可能令你不安 What I have to tell you is not pleasant.
我告诉你，因为我相信你 I tell you, because I believe you.
你看来很绝望 You have the look of desperate men.
塔利班有个官员... There is a Talib official.
每一、 两个月会来一次 He visits every month or two.
带着现金 He brings cash with him.
不多，聊胜于无 Not a lot, but better than nothing.
通常他会带走一个女孩 Usually, he takes a girl.
但也有例外 But not always.
你容许他这样做？ And you allow this?
我有什么选择？ What choice do I have?
你是院长 You're the director here.
有责任照顾他们 Your job is to watch over these children.
我无能为力 There is nothing I can do.
- 你根本是在贩卖儿童 - 冷静 - You're selling children! - Easy.
你应该保护他们 You're here to protect them!
对 Yes,
我应该保护他们 I am here to protect them.
坐下 Sit.
那你呢？ 老兄 And you, brother?
你来这里拯救一个男孩 You come here to rescue a boy,
带他回美国，让他过好日子 take him back to America, give him a good life.
看来很英雄，是吧？ It must seem heroic, huh?
但剩下那200个小孩呢？ But what of the other two hundred children?
你不会再看到他们 You'll never see them again.
不会听到他们在晚上呼叫 You'll never hear them howling in the night.
为了这孤儿院，我用尽毕生积蓄 I spent my life savings on this orphanage.
为了这鬼地方，我散尽家财 Everything I owned or inherited I sold to run this godforsaken place.
你猜我在巴基斯坦或伊朗没亲人？ You think I don't have family in Pakistan or Iran?
我本来可以像其他人般逃走 I could have run like everyone else.
我不交出一个孩子，他就带走上个 If I deny him one child, he takes 10.
所以我只好牺牲一个 So, I let him take one,
把事情交山阿拉审判 and leave the judging to Allah.
我拿了他的肮脏钱，然后去巿集 I take his filthy money, and I go to the bazaar,
为孩子买食物 and I buy food for the children.
你以为我把钱花在自己身上？ You think I spend it on myself?
你看看我 Look at me.
看呀 ！ Look.
他带走的孩子会怎样？ What happens to the children he takes?
有时，他们能够回来 Sometimes, they come back,
但更多时候，他们会夫踪 more often, they don't.
他是谁？ Who is he?
到哪里可以找到他？ How do I find him?
明天到加齐体育馆 Go to the Ghazi Stadium tomorrow.
比赛中场休息时就会见到他 You'll see him at halftime.
他会对公众演讲 He'll be the one making speeches.
请离开吧，你们把孩子吓坏了 Now, please leave. You've frightened the children.
停在那儿 Pull over here.
我们该走了 We should go.
我要再看一样东西 I have to look at one more thing.
你回忆里的事物都不在了 Nothing that you remember has survived.
忘掉更好 Better to forget.
我不想再忘掉 I don't want to forget any more.
你想留在这里吗？ Do you want to stay here?
不想，但没选择 No, but we have to.
是他了 That's him.
兄弟姊妹们 Brothers and sisters!
我们今天在这里执行教法 We are here today to carry out Shari'a.
我们今天在这里伸张正义 We are here today to carry out justice.
我们聆听和奉行真主的训示 We listen to what God says, and we obey.
真主怎么说？ And what does God say?
每个罪人必须受到应得惩罚 Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin.
这不是我说的，不是我兄弟说的 Those are not my words, nor the words of my brothers.
是真主的训示 Those are the words of God!
通奸应该受到什么惩罚？ And what manner of punishment benefits the adulterer?
玷污神圣婚姻的人该怎样惩罚？ How shall we punish those who dishonour the sanctity of marriage?
违反真主训示的人该怎样处置？ How shall we deal with those who disobey God?
怎对付向真主窗户丢石头的人？ How shall we answer those who throw stones at the windows of God's house?
我们该把石头丢回去 We shall throw stones back!
朋友 My friend.
朋友，可以谈谈吗？ My friend, a word?
我们有事找你兄弟 We have business with your brother.
一些私事 Personal business.
现在你要靠自己了 I guess I'll wait in the car. This is your business now.
谢谢你帮我 Thank you for helping me.
有人在吗？ Anyone there?
他们叫我来这里 I was told to come here.
进来吧 Come in.
谢谢 Thank you.
真柔软呢 How soft.
坐下 Sit down.
我想你们搞错了 I think there's been a mistake.
我是来见你的朋友 I came to see your friend.
在体育馆演讲那一位 The man who made the speech at the stadium.
他有其他事要办 He has other business.
你不用再戴着它了 You can do away with that now.
我不明白你的意思 I'm not sure what you mean.
除掉假胡须吧 Take off your beard.
它算逼真了 One of the better ones I've seen.
脱掉头巾吧 Take off the turban.
你由美国来？ You come from America?
是 Yes.
我要找一个男孩 I'm looking for a boy.
人人都爱找男孩 Isn't everybody?
我相信你朋友把他带来这里 I understand your friend brought him here.
他叫索拉博 His name is Sohrab.
让我问你一些事情 Let me ask you something.
你在那下流的美国做什么？ What are you doing with that whore America?
为什么你不留在这里... Why aren't you here
与回教兄弟作战？ with your Muslim brothers, serving your country.
我离开这里已很久了 I've been away for a long time.
这算是答案吗？ That's an answer?
他们说，不算答案 Not an answer, they say.
我只是来找一个小孩 I'm only here for the boy.
你想见他吗？ Do you want to see him?
过来吧，孩子 Come, my boy.
真是个精灵的哈扎拉仔 Such a talented little Hazara.
你们出去吧 Leave us be.
我在想... I've been wondering,
你那伟大人的爸爸怎样了？ whatever happened to your great Baba, anyway?
你究竟在想什么？ What did you think?
以为戴了假须就可以蒙骗我？ That you'd put on a fake beard and I wouldn't recognise you?
在体育馆时，我已一眼认出你 I knew you the second I saw you in the stadium.
我不会忘记任何一张脸 I never forget a face. Never!
你是阿塞夫？ Assef?
阿米尔 Amir jan.
你在这里做什么？ What are you doing here?
我？ Me?
这是我的家 I'm home.
问题应该是： 你在这里做什么？ The question is, what are you doing here?
我要带这孩子回家 I'm taking the boy home with me.
想听听我的建议吗？ You want my advice?
逃走吧 Run away.
这是你最擅长的事 That's what you do best.
没有索拉博，我不走 Not without Sohrab.
为什么？ Why's that?
他的祖国配不起他？ The boy's too good for his country?
你对阿富汗有什么认识？ What do you know about Afghanistan?
共产党屠杀教士、 蹂躏清真寺时... You weren't here when the Communists shot our mullahs
你都不在 and pissed in our mosques.
这国家像个布满垃圾的大人宅 This country was like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage.
我们清除垃圾，带来法纪和正义 We took out the garbage. We brought law. We brought justice.
我见识过你的所谓法纪... I have seen your laws
和正义 and your justice.
我要带这孩子回家 And I'm taking the boy home with me.
好吧 All right, then.
当然啦，但你必须付出代价 Of course, I didn't say you could take him for free.
停手 No more.
停手，大人，求你不要再伤害他 No more, Agha. Please, stop hurting him.
放下它，哈扎拉仔！一会才对付你 Put it down, Hazara. You'll get yours next.
放下它 Put it down!
拿走它 Get it out!
杀死他 Kill him!
你回家吧 Go home to your family.
你是阿米尔？ Are you Amir?
这是拉辛汗留给你的 Rahim Khan left this for you.
他去了哪里？ Where did he go?
我没有问 I did not ask.
但他会回来吧？ But he'll be back?
他已离开我们了，孩子 He has left us, my child.
你浪费了好牌呢 You're wasting your hand.
索拉博？ Sohrab?
请你脱鞋，兄弟 Take off your shoes, dear brother.
对不起 Forgive me.
我以为不见了你呢 I thought I lost you.
他习惯每天早祷之前来带我走 He used to come get me in the morning before prayers.
我不想再被他侵犯了 I didn't want him to get me any more.
他不会再出现了，索拉博 He won't, Sohrab.
我向你发誓... I swear to you,
他没法再伤害你 he can't get you any more.
你双亲都去世了？ Are your parents dead?
是 Yes.
你记得他们的样子吗？ Do you remember what they look like?
我从未见过我母亲 I never met my mother.
我记得父亲的样子 I remember what my father looked like.
我开始记不起他们的样子 I'm starting to forget their faces.
这是坏事吗？ Is that bad?
过来 Here.
有时我庆幸他们死了 Sometimes I'm glad they're dead.
为什么？ Why?
因为... Because...
我不想他们看到我这个样子 Because I don't want them to see me.
我太污秽了 I'm so dirty.
你不污秽 You're not dirty.
我不会伤害你的 I won't hurt you.
那是我太太 That's my wife.
- 我挂念你 - 我也挂念你 - Missed you. - Missed you, too.
索拉博，这是你伯母 Sohrab jan, this is your aunt.
我们都在等你 We've all been waiting for you.
准备好认识你的新家人吗？ Ready to meet your new family?
走吧 Let's go.
喜欢你的房间吗？ Do you like your room?
你看来不算伤得太重 You don't look so bad.
他好像没看过我一眼 I don't think he's looked at me once.
给他时间适应吧 Give him time.
我在织樽领冷衫，给他入冬时穿 I'm knitting him a turtleneck sweater for next winter.
这里卖的冷衫，捱不到一个月 The sweaters they sell here don't last a month.
你为何带那孩子回来？ Amir jan.
You're going to tell me why you've brought this boy back with you?
这算什么问题？ What sort of question is that?
你忙着织冷衫时... While you're busy knitting sweaters, my dear,
我要应付同乡的闲言 I have to deal with the community perception of our family.
人们会问，为何有个哈札拉仔 住在我女儿的家 People will ask why there is a Hazara boy living with our daughter.
我该如何回答？ What do I tell them?
你可以告诉他们... You can tell them...
没问题的... It's all right.
将军说得对 The General is correct.
人们会问的 People will ask.
不要紧 - Amir? - It's all right.
告诉你，将军大人... You see, General Sahib,
我父亲和他仆人的妻子发生关系 my father slept with his servant's wife.
生了一个叫哈山的孩子 And she bore him a son named Hassan.
哈山现在死了 Hassan is dead now.
睡在那房间的小孩是...哈山的儿子 That boy sleeping in the other room is Hassan's son.
他是我的侄儿 He's my nephew.
人们问起，你就这样回答吧 That's what you tell people when they ask.
还有一点，将军大人 And one more thing, General Sahib.
在我面前，不要再叫他哈扎拉仔 You will never again refer to him as "a Hazara boy" in my presence.
他有名字的，他叫索拉博 He has a name, and it's Sohrab.
- 真的很写实 - 谢谢 - It felt so real. - Thank you.
我的荣幸，谢谢你 My pleasure. Thank you.
看！你看看 Look. Look at that.
夫陪一下 Excuse me a second.
我想要那只风筝 I'd like that kite, please.
还有这个线轴 And I'll take this spool.
你喜欢这风筝吗？ Do you like the kite?
我有没有告诉过你... Did I ever tell you
你父亲是... your father
喀布尔最厉害的追踪风筝高手 was the best kite runner in all Kabul?
他令整区的孩子妒忌 He made all the neighbourhood kids jealous.
他追风筝时 He'd run the kites
不用抬头看天 and never look up at the sky.
有些人说... Some claimed
他只是追着风筝的影子走 he was just chasing the kite's shadow.
但他们对他的认识，不及我深 But they didn't know him like I did.
你父亲不是追影子 Your father wasn't chasing shadows.
他有感应 He just knew.
就是如此 That's all.
想帮我放这只风筝吗？ Do you want to help me fly this?
好吧 Okay.
看来我要自己放 Looks like I have to fly it solo.
最后机会 Last chance.
我去啦 Here I go.
这是只好风筝，对吧？ It's a good kite, no?
想试试吗？ Do you want to try?
来吧 Here.
拿稳它，索拉博 Hold it tight, Sohrab jan.
做得好，索拉博 Good job, Sohrab.
拉线，拉线，拉线！ Pull, pull, pull!
看来有人想挑战我们呢 Looks like someone wants a fight.
你想迎战？ Are you sure?
我们去教训他吧，如何？ Let's teach him a lesson, no?
看吧，索拉博 Watch, Sohrab.
这是你父亲最喜欢的绝招 I'm going to show you one of your father's favourite tricks.
一种传统技巧 An old technique.
“飞升下潜” Lift and Dive.
来吧... Come.
靠近些 Come closer.
他来了 Here he comes!
是时候对付他了，对吧？ We're going to catch him now, right?
看！我割断了他 ！ Look, I cut him!
你做什么？ 你抓不稳？ What are you doing, you can't hold it right?
对不起 I'm sorry!
我帮你追那只风筝回来，好吗？ Do you want me to run that kite for you?
为你，走一千遍在所不辞 For you, a thousand times over.