《追风筝的人》前段时间比较火（小说的评论：http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/chapter_40303_23559.html），为了看看火在哪里，我也读了这本小说，发现作者文笔很细腻，尤其在描述细节上。这几篇博文分享一下其中我觉得比较精彩的段落。

Chapter Two:

I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire. I can still see his tiny low-set ears and that pointed stub of a chin, a meaty appendage that looked like it was added as a mere afterthought. And the cleft lip, just left of midline, where the Chinese doll maker's instrument may have slipped, or perhaps he had simply grown tired and careless.

"a meaty appendage that looked like it was added as a mere afterthought":就好像做中国娃娃的工匠完成作品后想了一下又再给补上的一小块一样。

这样的描写显示出了Hassan下巴的突兀。

"where the Chinese doll maker's instrument may have slipped":仿佛工匠的雕刻工具滑落而恰好在唇上刻上了一划。

这里除了描写Hassan兔唇的不自然之外我想还有点像是说this is a mistake made by God...