Apro la confezione. Complessa. È la mia prima volta. Titubo. 5 cd?. Uhm, - ci vorranno settimane per ascoltarli - è stato il mio primo pensiero. Con estremo scetticismo motivato dalla poca dimestichezza del mezzo mi accingo ad ascoltare il mio primo audiolibro: “Il cacciatore di aquiloni” di Khaled Hosseini. Play.

La profondità della voce narrante e la melodica bellezza dei versi scritti dall’autore mi proiettano immediatamente in afghanistan. Kabul appare diversa da come viene descritta nelle funeste cronache contemporanee, è una città viva dove ancora semplici libertà come far volare gli aquiloni sono permesse.

Vengo rapito dalla storia dei piccoli Amir e Hassan, separati da classe sociale ed etnia ma uniti indissolubilmente da grande amicizia e dal sangue. Finisce il primo cd. Inserisco il secondo senza velare una certa impazienza. Rieccomi a Kabul dove l’unica battaglia attesa era quella degli aquiloni. Quel giorno Amir si macchiò di una colpa terribile. Poi la guerra, vera, i Russi, i Talebani, la fuga in America, il presente.

Uno dopo l’altro i cd si succedono nel mia lettore, stupito quanto me non diffondere più musica. Stop. Finisce l’escursione, lascio l’auto. Dopo qualche giorno, altra gita. Play. Il senso di colpa tramandato di padre in figlio, l’amore, i rimpianti, la possibilità di redenzione di fronte ad un Allah dimenticato, mi scuotono. Un presente fatto di emozioni forti che ruotano attorno ad un bimbo, capace di scegliere la via della morte pur di lasciare l’Afghanistan odierno fatto di violenze supportate da una malsana interpretazione della religione. Inserisco l’ultimo cd. Colpi di scena, lacrime e forti suggestioni. Un passaggio da sensazioni auditive a visive. È proprio come un film, le immagini nella mia mente si accompagnano senza distonia a ciò che i miei occhi opportunamente guardano. Un paesaggio che muta col passare dei Km che paiono essere molto più leggeri grazie all’audiolibro di Hosseini. La storia é giunta al termine. Con occhi tristi e sognanti io e Lory comprendiamo di essere da circa 10 minuti nel garage dell’hotel, chiusi in un religioso silenzio, con la consapevolezza di aver “ascoltato” una grande storia d’amore e di amicizia attraverso uno strumento sconosciuto: l’audiolibro.

TAK SATUPUN ARTIKEL DI BLOG INI ADALAH KENYATAAN. MEREKA SEMUA CUMA HAYALAN PENULIS. MOHON PERHATIKAN BLOG INI BAIK _ BAIK. JUDUL, TANGGAL dan KETERANGAN DI ABOUT.

Buat teman teman yang agak kurang memperhatikan tujuan dibuat blog ini ( judul, tanggal, about), saya mintaa maaf apabila merasa tertipu bila menganggap tulisan tulisan di blog ini adalah kenyataan. Mereka semua hanya hayalan!.

Terimakasih atas perhatiannya.

Salam

Papario.

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BizToday

New York, 24 April 2009

Hanung Bramantyo dan Kang Abik ( Habiburrahman El Shirazi) boleh merasa sangat puas. Idealisme untuk membuat novel Ayat Ayat Cinta menjadi fiksi kelas dunia menjadi kenyataan.

Bagaimana tidak, pada saat Kang Abik sang penulis mendapat penawaran dari Marc Foster sutradara film nominator Oscar "The Kite Runner" ( dari novel karangan Khaled Hosseini) yang sukses untuk membuat remake film Ayat Ayat Cinta, beliau langsung setuju dan mengajak serta Sutradara Hanung Bramantyo untuk terlibat.

“Saya sangat gembira atas penawaran Marc karena idealisme saya yang belum tercapai, kini dapat saya wujudkan” kata Bung Hanung kepada penulis.

“Akhirnya novel saya yang mengandung dakwah Islam tembus hollywood” kata Kang Abik.

“Ayat Ayat Cinta adalah sebuah novel luar biasa. Masyarakat dunia harus menyaksikan sebuah kemurnian cinta yang universal” kata Mark Foster. Dibawah bendera Universal Pictures, Marc memberi kesempatan Bung Hanung untuk menyutradarai filem ini. Marc akan menjadi produsernya saja.

Para kritikus filem Indonesia memberikan pujian kepada filem ini. “Saya beri empat jempol untuk Remake Ayat Ayat cinta”. Mulai dari pemeran yang memberikan karakter yang hebat, sinematografi yang mampu menampilkan adegan yang menyentuh bahkan isi pikiran dari setiap tokoh dengan baik, pemandangan atau panorama mesir yang luar biasa ditampilkan begitu indah, kostum yang sempurna, penggunaan bahasa asli yang indah, membuat film ini layak dijadikan sebuah masterpiece” komentar Deddy Mizwar.

Kesuksesan filem ini tidak perlu diragukan lagi. Tercatat 3 juta penonton pada 3 hari pertama pemutaran perdana di seluruh Indonesia dan berhasil menembus box office hollywood selama 3 minggu.

Novel Ayat Ayat cinta yang baru selesai disadur dalam berbagai bahasa, laku keras di AS, Pakistan, Inggris, Perancis dan Malaysia.

(BT)

Aku tertarik untuk membaca buku “The Kite Runner” karena majalah Time memasukkan penulisnya, Khaled Hosseini, sebagai salah satu dari 100 orang yang masuk jajaran “The World Most Influential People”.

Sebelumnya (2006) U.S. office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees juga menganugerahkan Humanitarian of the Year kepada Hosseini untuk bukunya ini.

Sebagai sebuah karya sastra, buku ini memang memiliki bobot yang dalam. But wait, sebagai ideomarketer, kita tidak ingin membahas dari sisi itu. Terlepas dari beragam apresiasi yang diberikan kepada buku ini, ada satu hal yang menarik untuk dicermati.

Entah apakah penulis sudah melakukan riset yang mendalam saat ia menceritakan bagaimana transisi pemerintahan Afghanistan dari satu era ke era yang lain. Hanya saja, ilustrasi yang dipaparkan oleh penulis terkait dengan kondisi kelam Afghanistan di bawah kekuasaan Thaliban menggiring pembaca untuk mengamini satu kesimpulan: tindakan Amerika Serikat menginvasi Afghanistan pasca tragedi 11 September adalah sebuah pilihan yang tepat.

Tak heran penulisnya mendapatkan anugerah sebagai salah satu orang yang paling berpengaruh di tahun 2008, karena sejatinya Hosseini bukan penulis biasa. Terlepas ketidaksepakatan atas gagasan yang dibawanya, dia adalah seorang ideo-marketer!

Also, in a nerdy sort of way, I often find myself re-reading particular sentences over and over just to admire the style in which the author chose to write it—it’s complexity, diction, beauty, etc. For that reason alone, I often get stuck spending more than needed to finish just one page of a book. I also sometimes feel that I have a bad memory, another characteristic that’s not exactly good to have as a journalist. But, through my over analysis of things and drive to get every detail perfect I feel it’s not important to have a good memory in general, but rather important to remember what’s important. So by reading books with a detailed eye I feel that I pick up on things that others might not pick up on, which may be important details later on in the book. So essentially, by taking more time to read the book I can understand it better and get a greater experience from reading it than those who rush through it.

Anyways, I guess the point of this blog was to say that I made a goal for myself this summer to read as many books as I possibly can. Needless to say, that goal was quickly broken. I started off the summer strong reading Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns before May was even over. I had read Hosseini’s Kite Runner after my older sister and I made a deal. I was to read Kite Runner, and she was to read, Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith (a book I read in my Ethics: Ethnicity and Eating class a few semesters ago) which of course she never did. I however, always (  J ) keep my end of a bargain…not to mention the Kite Runner was a great book.

Anyways, I started reading A Thousand Splendid Suns after finals were over and I have to say that it was one of the best books I had read in a very long time. Though both Hosseini’s books were amazing, I think I liked Splendid Suns better than Kite Runner (one person suggested that perhaps the reason for this was because Suns was written from a girl’s perspective while Kite Runner was from a boy’s perspective, which very well might be the case). I rarely find books that I am sitting on edge trying to figure out what happens next, but this was one of those books. At the same time I ruined the book for myself, which I often also do with movies, because I have a bad habit of guessing what is going to happen next…and am usually right :]. But nonetheless, for me, this book gets and A++.

**OK, in an effort to make my blogs not seem endless, I am going to try to break up these next few according to the different books/topics from each book they are about.

If this was boring for you I'm sorry. I promise this blog “series about what I read” will get better and more interesting!...I hope.

Keep reading and feel free to leave me comments :] I know this isn't your typical blog with juicy details of the happening of my weekend or day, etc. but hopefully it's still interesting.

ALSO, if there are any typos in any of my blogs I apologize. Please don't think I'm dumb. I just simply don't have time to go through all of my entries and make sure all of the grammar and punctuation is correct.

Trots att det handlar om krig och svält, om död och maktgalna människor så kan jag inte låta bli att tänka på den fantastiska kärlekshistorian som utspelar sig i kaoset. Det får lättsamt hjärtknip i Malmö kännas futtigit. Nästan så futtigt att det inte är värt något och att man önskar få känna så lika starka kännslor, där det inte finns plats för någon tvekan eller osäkerhet.

Jag vill ge boken som present till alla jag tycker om, jag vill att de ska få dela det fantastiska med mig och kanske lära sig lite om Afganistan på köpet.

Att nu läsa ännu en bok av Läckberg känns fruktanstvärt tråkigt och intetsägande. Jag blir irreterad på den präktiga Erika och hennes duktiga Patrik. Efter denna, som jag bara valde för det var den enda bok jag hittade när jag inte var hemma igår, lär det dröja länge tills jag läser om dom igen. Kanske i vinter om jag befinner mig i mörker och energinivån lämpar sig för en lättsam deckare från Fjällbacka.

Istället blir det nog Allt för min syster som jag, precis som Tusen Strålande Solar, fick av mina kära arbetskamrater på skolan. (Tillsammans med en Fairtraidchokladkaka.) Eller så läser jag någon av Joanne Harris på engelska. Lollipop shoes ska vara bra.

]]> http://jeroenvandenberghe.wordpress.com/?p=161 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:07:52 +0000 Jeroen Vanden Berghe http://jeroenvandenberghe.wordpress.com/?p=161 Vakantieperiodes zijn uitgelezen momenten om de lectuurlijst wat aan te dikken. Op de heen- en terugweg naar de Mont Ventoux heb ik De Vliegeraar van Khaled Hosseini aan dat lijstje toegevoegd.

De vertaling van het boek dateert al van 2003, maar het grote publiek ontdekte het boek pas in 2005. Sindsdien domineert het zowat alle bestsellerlijstjes die er maar bestaan. In 2007 kochten 50.000 Vlamingen dit boek. Is een topplaats in zo'n ranking een garantie voor kwaliteit? Niet noodzakelijk, vaak gaat het niet meer dan om een tijdelijke hype, een must-read. Vergelijkbaar zijn o.m. De Celestijnse belofte (James Redfield), Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) of De Schaduw van de Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon): allen met een bijzonder goede verkoop en met een vertrouwde en conventionele vertelstijl.

Stijgt De Vliegeraar daar boven uit?  Wel, het levensverhaal van Amir en Hassan is ijzersterk; heel wat menselijke gevoelens als vriendschap en verraad, wroeging en vergeving komen er in aan bod; de setting is mij helemaal niet vertrouwd en daarom net aantrekkelijk; het verhaal is ingebed in een internationaal politiek hangijzer (de Russiche bezetting van Afghanistan en de Talibanterreur). Anderzijds is het literair niet van het allerhoogste niveau; het leest net iets te vlot, alle beschrijvingen en alle wendingen in het verhaal staan in het teken van latere ontwikkelingen, waardoor het soms iets te gestructureerd en zelfs te gekunsteld overkomt. Tegen het einde van het boek werkt dit zelfs irritant en doet het veel af aan de sterkte die het boek in het begin uitstraalt. Jammer. Maar al bij al, een terechte verkoophit; ook de film The Kite Runner lijkt goed te zijn (van de muziek heb ik al even mogen proeven).

This story is about Mariam and Laila, along with every such woman in who dare to survive in a country where constant wars delude the Humans perspective and existence - Afghanistan. It was very sad to read about the state of women, the extent of exploitation, where woman are considered as something filthy and not as normal Humans, But In what a ravishing way did Khaled say this story ... !!!!

I cried for Mariam, just as i cried for Laila. I cried for the injustice and agony faced by woman there. Reading this novel, the story of which is plotted very close to the reality was a pleasant change from reading the usual fictional stories to me where I got to feel their pain, understood their tears and prayed mutely for those myriad woman living amid that savage world. I couldnt keep the book down once I laid my hands on it so captivating was the story which is anything but fictional.

A definitely to-read Once again from Khaled, which left me earning for his third book, which i hope would be soon. This story reminded me of a movie I saw awhile back - Provoked. The plot of which is a bit alike The Thousand Splendid Suns.
P.S: Isnt the book cover absolutely stunning, A perfect description of what the book holds - Hope of a Woman .. !!! ?

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Mentre pensavo a tutto ciò che avevo letto, mi ricordavo dei bei momenti che avevo trascorso quand'ero piccola, quei momenti che passavo giocando con gli altri ragazzini. E così, d'un tratto, fra i miei ricordi si è fatto presente l'aquilone che volava via e io che correvo dietro ad esso. Ricordo quando mio padre me l'ha costruito e quando io lo coloravo con molto amore, come se fosse una cosa sacra per me e non lasciavo che nessuno lo toccasse, gli avevo dato persino il nome.

Fra tanti giochi che papà mi aveva regalato, l'aquilone era quello che mi piaceva di più perché mio padre l'aveva costruito con tanto amore e pazienza per me. Mentre pensavo a tutto ciò, ho capito i valori che ha un aquilone.

"Uno dei valori che ha un aquilone" pensavo tra me e me. E improvvisamente mi venivano in mente i bambini che correvano liberi sul prato verde e l'aquilone nel cielo blu, tra le nuvole bianche che nascondevano il sole che sembrava volesse bruciare i nostri aquiloni di diversi colori. Ed ecco un altro valore che ha un aquilone: la vita. In un aquilone la vita viene trasmessa attraverso i diversi colori. Nel mio aquilone c'era anche il bianco che è un colore che rappresenta la pace. E la pace, insieme al divertimento, è un altro valore dell'aquilone. Quando ero piccola io non capivo perché mio padre voleva che nel mio aquilone ci fosse anche il colore bianco. Lui mi disse che giocando con gli altri bambini senza litigare, avrei rispettato la regola di quel colore. E' vero che nell'aquilone c'è la pace ma dalla pace viene fuori il perdono e dal perdono la voglia di vivere una vita felice con gli altri e la forza di andare avanti, di ricominciare. Credo che sia questo quello che l'autore voleva far capire ai lettori cominciando e finendo su un prato sotto un cielo percorso dagli aquiloni.

Franja Brigilda

The most beautiful fact about 'The Kite Runner' is It felt very close to the reality, I could instantly picture a boy like Amir and someone like Hassan. The plight of people living amid wars in Afghanistan brought tears in my eyes. Wars destroying their culture, uprooting their heritage, Ruling and torturing them in their own land was gruesome, I just dint realise when i started crying for those people. The Characters are so beautifully potrayed, some of whom I instantly fell in love with, and some whom I couldnt help but Hate.
This story is about Amir, a upper class Pashtun, who enjoys the luxury of education, material comfort and a playmate Hassan, His Hazara servants son. Throughout the story the Loyality and friendhsip between them are tested, where Hassan often ends up paying a Heavy price more than life itself and Amir chooses a path of less resisitance hiding behind his superior class. Marking the betrayal of Amir towards Hassan, the scar on Amir's heart tortures and ridicules him his whole life when one day He gets a chance to redeem himself, choosing of which leads him to an another perilous challenge filled with Love, Hope, Loss and Happiness, explaning him the essence of His life, His friendship with his longtime companion Hassan.

I wish i could write more, I wish my words wouldnt have betrayed me. This book left me absolutely speechless just like His lates novel 'The Thousand Splendid Suns' which I will reviewing shortly inshallah. I encourage everyone to read this book, I am sure you would be amazed by the beautiful and enriching debutant stroy from Khaled.

A very heartwarming read by Khaled - The Kite Runner.

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Just finished Khalid Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns". Outstanding book, well narrated by Atossa Leoni. Some books you can lose interest in, but not this one - kept me constantly listening. It will be interesting to see if they make a movie out of this one. No doubt, I'm sure. The book certainly gives you an appreciation of what women endure on the other side of the world (not to disparage those who live on this side of the world!).

If you haven't listened or read either of Khalid's books, you should do yourself a favor. Not only is it excellent writing, but it leads to a better understanding of the people who are living in those countries, where turmoil is the word of the day.

I'm so glad that i had the oppurtunity to watch such a rare beautiful film. It's an adaptation of the novel of the same title The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I haven't read the book yet but i'm planning to get a copy of it on the coming days.

The story was brillant and compelling. Two young boys - Hasaan a loyal friend, tough, persistent to his beliefs, willing to do anything for his friend; Amir a well-to-do boy, passive, a writer in the making - torn apart by a hideous incident that crucially changed their lives...and then further separated by war. The story showcased the pre-war Afghanistan on the background - its humble and peaceful life with its own color and unique beauty and how war turned it into waste and rubbles. I won't give anymore details...hehe

I love how the film was done. Every scene is a feast for the eyes. I would like to give a special commendation on  the film's original score which i think one of the most beautiful scores ever made. In fact, its better than this year's oscar winner for original score which is also one of my favorites. Acting-wise, the two boys who played the major roles were very impressive. Very genuine acting. The rest of the cast were also good.

I can't believe this. I'm already giving a review...hehehe...What i'm just trying to say is that - you have to watch it !

*The photo above is the film's official poster.

Anteontem, eu vi uma mulçumana casar-se com um sikh, na Índia. Foi no filme Entre Dois Mundos que, de forma misteriosa, trouxe à memória o livro O Caçador de Pipas, de Hosseini. Imagino que três das 36 possam ser os cônjuges e o menino, filho deles.

Conheço mais algumas pessoas que podem ser 36. Pessoas mutáveis que não saíram de filmes e nem são justas/santas toda hora. Pessoas que passaram. Pessoas que passam. Cada uma deixando uma centelha. E nessa centelha, 36. O mundo pode acabar, mas elas terão existido.

"Cada pessoa que passa em nossa vida, passa sozinha, porque cada pessoa é única e nenhuma substitui a outra.

Cada pessoa que passa em nossa vida, passa sozinha, mas não vai sozinha e não nos deixará só, porque leva um pouco de nós e deixa um pouco de si.

Há os que levam pouco e deixam muito, e há os que deixam pouco e levam muito.

Essa é a mais bela responsabilidade da vida e a prova de que não nos encontramos por acaso." *

*Palavras que já vi escritas de outra forma, cujo autor ora dizem ser Chaplin, ora Antonie de Saint-Exupéry, ora...

Drageløberen kunne det hele. Både som film og som bog.  Smuk, smuk, vedkommende og fremragende historiefortælling!

Drageløberen kan faktisk mere end det.
Drageløberen har en helt tredje dimension og dermed måske også en mission i sig selv:

Vi lærer en masse om afghanere og Afghanistan.
At afghanere ligner alle os andre og at ikke alle er fanatiske talebanere. At Afghanistans situation er en tragedie, som vi skal give mere opmærksomhed og hjælp.