追风筝的人阿塞夫结局 残忍而美丽的情谊:The Kite Runner 追风筝的人(39)

残忍而美丽的情谊:The Kite Runner 追风筝的人(39)  

IT SNOWED HEAVILY the night before the tournament. Hassan and I sat under the kursi and played panjpar as wind-rattled tree branches tapped on the window. Earlier that day
I'd asked Ali to set up the kursi for us--which was basically an electric heater under a low table covered with a thick
quilted blanket. Around the table
he arranged mattresses and cushions
so as many as enty people could sit and slip their legs under. Hassan and I used to spend entire snowy days snug under the kursi
playing chess
cards--mostly panjpar.
I killed Hassan's ten of diamonds
played him o jacks and a six. Next door
in Baba's study
Baba and Rahim Khan were discussing Business with a couple of other men-one of them I recognized as Assef's father. Through the wall
I could hear the scratchy sound of Radio Kabul News.
Hassan killed the six and picked up the jacks. On the radio
Daoud Khan was announcing something about foreign investments.
哈桑杀了6，要了两条J。达乌德汗在收音机中宣布有关外国投资的消息。
"He says someday we'll have television in Kabul
" I said.
"Who?"
"Daoud Khan
you ass
the president."
Hassan giggled. "I heard they already have it in Iran
" he said.
I sighed. "Those Iranians..." For a lot of Hazaras
Iran represented a sanctuary of sorts--I guess because
like Hazaras
most Iranians were Shi'a Muslims. But I remembered something my teacher had said that summer about Iranians
that they were grinning smooth talkers who patted you on the back with one hand and picked your pocket with the other. I told Baba about that and he said my teacher was one of those jealous Afghans
jealous because Iran was a rising power in Asia and most people around the world couldn't even find Afghanistan on a world map. "It hurts to say that
" he said
shrugging. "But better to get hurt by the truth than forted with a lie."
"I'll buy you one someday
" I said.
Hassan's face brightened. "A television? In truth?"
"Sure. And not the black-and-white kind either. We'll probably be grown-ups by then
but I'll get us o. One for you and one for me."
"I'll put it on my table
where I keep my drawings
" Hassan said.