《The Kite Runner(追风筝的人)》是一个阿富汗作家的处女作，霸占了美国两大权威畅销书排行榜《纽约时报》排行榜、《出版商周刊》排行榜长达80余周，声势超过红透全世界的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》。 这本小说太令人震撼，很长一段时日，让我所读的一切都相形失色。文学与生活中的所有重要主题，都交织在这部惊世之作里：爱、恐惧、愧疚、赎罪……——著名作家伊莎贝拉·阿连德
★一个阿富汗作家的处女作
★一部以史诗般的历史景观和荡气回肠的人性故事，深深地打动全世界各地亿万读者心的文学经典
★美国《纽约时报》、《出版商周刊》等九大畅销书排行榜榜首图书
★英国《观察家报》2005年度最佳图书
★台湾诚品书店、金石堂书店、博客来书店销售冠军
★连续80余周雄踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，声势超过红透全球的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》
“许多年过去了，人们说陈年旧事可以被埋葬，然而我终于明白这是错的，因为往事会自行爬上来。回首前尘，我意识到在过去二十六年里，自己始终在窥视着那荒芜的小径。”
《华盛顿邮报》认为：“没有虚矫赘文，没有无病呻吟，只有精炼的篇章，细腻勾勒家庭与友谊，背叛与救赎。作者对祖国的爱显然与对造成它今日沧桑的恨一样深。故事娓娓道来，轻笔淡描，近似川端康成的《千羽鹤》。”
12岁的阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而，在一场风筝比赛后，发生了一件悲惨不堪的事，阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦，逼走了哈桑，不久，自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。
成年后的阿米尔始终无法原谅自己当年对哈桑的背叛。为了赎罪，阿米尔再度踏上暌违二十多年的故乡，希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力，却发现一个惊天谎言，儿时的噩梦再度重演，阿米尔该如何抉择？
小说如此残忍而又美丽，作者以温暖细腻的笔法勾勒人性的本质与救赎，读来令人荡气回肠。
Book Description
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan , the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara, member of a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When the Soviets invade and Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of their lies. Written against a history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But with the devastation, Khaled Hosseini also gives us hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows for redemption.
Amazon.com
In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try.
The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.")
Some of the plot's turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon.
--Gisele Toueg
Amazon.ca
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park.
--Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca
From Publishers Weekly
Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid '90s. Amir, the son of a well-to-do Kabul merchant, is the first-person narrator, who marries, moves to California and becomes a successful novelist. But he remains haunted by a childhood incident in which he betrayed the trust of his best friend, a Hazara boy named Hassan, who receives a brutal beating from some local bullies. After establishing himself in America, Amir learns that the Taliban have murdered Hassan and his wife, raising questions about the fate of his son, Sohrab. Spurred on by childhood guilt, Amir makes the difficult journey to Kabul, only to learn the boy has been enslaved by a former childhood bully who has become a prominent Taliban official. The price Amir must pay to recover the boy is just one of several brilliant, startling plot twists that make this book memorable both as a political chronicle and a deeply personal tale about how childhood choices affect our adult lives. The character studies alone would make this a noteworthy debut, from the portrait of the sensitive, insecure Amir to the multilayered development of his father, Baba, whose sacrifices and scandalous behavior are fully revealed only when Amir returns to Afghanistan and learns the true nature of his relationship to Hassan. Add an incisive, perceptive examination of recent Afghan history and its ramifications in both America and the Middle East, and the result is a complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-This beautifully written first novel presents a glimpse of life in Afghanistan before the Russian invasion and introduces richly drawn, memorable characters. Quiet, intellectual Amir craves the attention of his father, a wealthy Kabul businessman. Kind and self-confident Hassan is the son of Amir's father's servant. The motherless boys play together daily, and when Amir wins the annual kite contest, Hassan offers to track down the opponent's runaway kite as a prize. When he finds it, the neighborhood bullies trap and rape him, as Amir stands by too terrified to help. Their lives and their friendship are forever changed, and the memory of his cowardice haunts Amir as he grows into manhood. Hassan and his father return to the village of their ancestors, and later Amir and his father flee to Los Angeles to avoid political persecution. Amir attends college, marries, and fulfills his dream of becoming a writer. When Amir receives word of his former friend's death under the Taliban, he returns to Kabul to learn the fate of Hassan's son. This gripping story of personal redemption will capture readers' interest.
Penny Stevens, Andover College, Portland, ME
From Booklist
Hosseini's debut novel opens in Kabul in the mid-1970s. Amir is the son of a wealthy man, but his best friend is Hassan, the son of one of his father's servants. His father encourages the friendship and dotes on Hassan, who worships the ground Amir walks on. But Amir is envious of Hassan and his own father's apparent affection for the boy. Amir is not nearly as loyal to Hassan, and one day, when he comes across a group of local bullies raping Hassan, he does nothing. Shamed by his own inaction, Amir pushes Hassan away, even going so far as to accuse him of stealing. Eventually, Hassan and his father are forced to leave. Years later, Amir, now living in America, receives a visit from an old family friend who gives him an opportunity to make amends for his treatment of Hassan. Current events will garner interest for this novel; the quality of Hosseini's writing and the emotional impact of the story will guarantee its longevity.
Kristine Huntley
From AudioFile
Amir, a rich man's son, grows up in Kabul as playmate and master of Hassan, an ethnic Hazara, a despised Afghani minority. Amir, who tells the story, has ambivalent feelings about both his father and his ultra-loyal friend as the monarchy falls, the Soviets invade, and Afghanistan is thrown into turmoil. Westerners who engage this novel will learn much about Afghani society of the recent past if they can endure the author's narration. In his inexpert voice, the point of view seems insipid and saccharine. But at least the exotic words and names are pronounced correctly. Y.R.
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追风筝的人

《基督山伯爵》主要描写的是法国波旁王朝时期发生的一个报恩复仇的故事。法老号船的年轻大副唐戴斯受船长临终之托为拿破仑党人送一封信，遭两个卑鄙小人和阴险检察官维尔福的陷害，被关入死牢。剥夺了本该属于他的美好阳光、爱情和前程。十八年后，他带着狱友法里亚教士临死前告诉他的秘密，越狱逃生，找到法里亚藏匿的宝藏后成为巨富，从此他化名基督山伯爵。经过精心策划，他报答了恩人，惩罚了三个想置他于死地的仇人，并向恩人报了恩。

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honour to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such post-war stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favourite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work
"The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords."
Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator
"The old man was dreaming about the lions."
Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career.
--James Marcus

★超级畅销书《追风筝的人》《与神对话》译者李继宏先生倾心翻译。
★本书特别附录10448字全方位精彩导读，让你真正读懂《老人与 海》 。
★超精美装帧，封面采用精致高档艺术纸，内文采用80g超细腻纯质纸，让您在享受阅读经典乐趣的同时，有效保护视力。
★阅读《老人与海》，认准李继宏译本！
故事讲述了一个老人独自在海上捕鱼，接连几个月没有收获，后来他钓到一条很大的旗鱼，跟它缠斗了两天两夜，用鱼枪把它刺死；但在返回的途中遇到鲨鱼的袭击，缺乏帮手和工具的老人虽然杀了几条鲨鱼，但旗鱼被其他鲨鱼吃光了，等他进港时，旗鱼只剩下一副骨头。
《老人与海》出版后引发巨大轰动，海明威凭此作品荣获第54届诺贝尔文学奖。

·精选海明威最经典的作品
·代表海明威最高艺术成就
·权威译本，完美呈现
《老人与海》一书讲述了古巴老渔夫桑地雅哥与大鱼搏斗的故事，塑造了文学史上最典型的硬汉形象，是海明威最具代表性的作品之一，奠定了他在20世纪英美文坛不可动摇的地位。小说于1952年面世，1953年即获普利策奖，并在1954年助海明威捧回诺贝尔文学奖。自出版以来，小说获得各界赞誉无数，曾雄踞畅销书排行榜首位达六个月之久，被威廉•福克纳誉为“同时代最好的小说”，当之无愧地成为影响历史的百部经典之一以及美国历史上里程碑式的三十二本书之一。
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《老人与海》的译者是著名作家、被誉为“乡愁诗人”的余光中先生，他的这个译本是公认最权威的译本之一。

一群动物带着对理想的憧憬，力图打破旧秩序，本应冲出牢笼，但又跳入了另一个陷阱，他们依然被欺骗，被奴役，被统治，不平等是不变的结局。《动物庄园》里最令人恐惧的还是那句话，那被篡改的只剩下一条的戒律：所有动物一例平等，但有些动物比其他动物更加平等。《动物庄园》作为一部寓言小说，作者所真切感受到的是，所谓的平等、自由实在是有限的、相对的、短暂的，世上没有乌托邦式的理想主义时代。乔治•奥威尔一生短暂，但其以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文笔审视和记录着他所生活的那个时代，作出了许多超越时代的预言，被称为 “一代人的冷峻良知”。

1348年，意大利一城市瘟疫流行，10名青年男女在乡村一所别墅里避难。他们终日游玩，欢宴，每人每天讲一个故事，10天讲了100个故事。这些故事批判天主教会，嘲讽教会的黑暗和罪恶；赞美爱情是才智和高尚情操的源泉，谴责禁欲主义；无情暴露和鞭挞封建贵族的堕落和腐败，体现了人文主义思想本书是从意大利文直接翻译的全译本，保留了原著古朴、精练、生动的语言风格。

《世界文学名著典藏:堂吉诃德(全译插图本)》是一部讽刺骑士小说的小说。主人公堂吉诃德因沉迷于骑士小说，决定外出历险，做一名行侠仗义的骑士。他找来同村的农民桑丘•潘沙作他的侍从，把邻村的一位农家女儿杜尔希尼亚作为他的意中人。他三次外出历险，作了许多可笑之事。最后他被化装成白月骑士的朋友打败，放弃行侠游历，回家不久后病倒。临死前，他醒悟到自己迷信骑士小说之过。
《世界文学名著典藏:堂吉诃德(全译插图本)》一个令人伤感的故事，它越是令人发笑，由越使人感到难过。法国大作家雨果写道：塞万提斯的创作是如此巧妙，可谓天衣无缝；主角与桑丘，骑着各自的牲口，浑然一体，可笑又可悲，感人至极……

“萨迦”这个名词是从动词衍生而来，源出于古日耳曼语，其本意是“说”和“讲”，也就是讲故事的意思。公元十三世纪前后冰岛人和挪威人用散文把过去叙述祖先们英雄业绩的口头文学记载下来，加工整理就成了《萨迦》。流传至今的《萨迦》不下于一百五十种，主要反映了冰岛和北欧氏族社会的英雄人物的战斗生活经历和人民的社会生活、风俗习惯、宗教信仰与精神面貌，也兼有人物传记、家族谱系和地方志的内容。
这部选集中一共收了五篇萨迦，除了《埃吉尔萨迦》和《伏尔松萨迦》外，其余三篇都属于“冰岛人萨迦”，即冰岛的家族萨迦，以有别于根据日耳曼英雄史诗改编的故事。这几篇都是萨迦中最有价值的珍品，通过它们我们可以一窥全部《萨迦》的面貌。

这部典藏本德语英雄史诗，由翻译家曹乃云先生据荷恩埃姆斯-拉斯贝尔克版译出。前十九章讲述勇敢的尼德兰王子西格弗里特向布尔恭腾王国的公主克里姆希尔特求婚，并帮助布尔恭腾王国国王恭特尔娶得冰岛女王勃吕恩希尔特为后的盛大场面及精彩故事，其中还包括王家的不睦与纷争、密谋以及残杀。第二十至三十八章则讲述克里姆希尔特的第二次婚姻，以及不忘旧恨所策划和实施的复仇之战。本书大部分内容源于欧洲历史上许多的材料和典故，气势磅礴，内容包罗万象，叙事叙理丝丝入扣，展示情节前后呼应，读来让人回肠荡气，难以忘怀。

《熙德之歌》是迄今保留最完整的一部游唱诗，不但在西班牙文学史上占有极重要的地位，而且从世界文学史上的角度看，也是一部不可忽视的作品。文学史家们常常将它与法国的《罗兰之歌》、德国的《尼伯龙根之歌》并列，统称为中古欧洲的三大英雄史诗。熙德是西班牙著名的民族英雄，他英勇善战，赢得摩尔人的尊敬，称他为“熙德”（阿拉伯语对男子的尊称）。《熙德之歌》用谣曲的形式写成，遣词刚劲有力，洋溢着强烈的英雄气概和浓郁的民族特色。诗歌把西班牙人民的气质集中在熙德的身上，热情讴歌了坚强的意志、忠诚的心灵、真挚的爱情，诗歌富于历史的真实性，对西班牙历史文化、风土人情都有十分精彩、细致的表现，是西班牙文学史上的第一座里程碑。

《一千零一夜》，又译《天方夜谭》，Alf layla wa layla，本版严格按照 1835 年开罗版阿拉伯文善本“官方订正布拉克本”全译，依据原文分夜方式（以“夜”为单位是阿拉伯说书艺人的独创），诗歌全数译出，总计 1380 首，涉及性描写的段落全部译出。
凡“布拉克本”中没有的故事，一律列入“附录”，——其中包括脍炙人口的“阿里巴巴与四十大盗”、“阿拉丁与神灯”等——以保持该版本译本符合原文原貌。

★法国中世纪英雄史诗“纪功歌”代表作，欧洲中世纪四大英雄史诗之一
★法兰西国宝级史诗，现存最古老的法兰西文学巨著之一
★第一届“傅雷翻译出版奖”获得者马振骋教授权威译本
《罗兰之歌》，法兰西史诗，写于公元11世纪，作者不详，是中世纪四大英雄史诗之一，讲述了法兰西皇帝查理出征西班牙，贵族加纳隆嫉恨将领罗兰，叛变后与敌军勾结，在山谷中重兵埋伏，罗兰率领的军队陷入敌军圈套，仓促应战，全军覆没，罗兰自己也壮烈牺牲。查理大帝闻讯赶来，歼灭了敌军，处死了加纳隆，为英勇的罗兰报仇雪恨。
《罗兰之歌》是欧洲“纪功歌”的杰出代表，在吟游诗人口中吟唱了一百多年，以查理大帝的勇将罗兰的英雄事迹为基础，在民间传说中掺入了当时的社会内容和宗教神秘色彩，后世人用神奇的语言把一段史实谱写成了一部辉煌的传奇。

《埃达》是中古时期流传下来的最重要的北欧文学经典，也是在古希腊、罗马以外的西方神话源头之一。
由于自然环境导致农耕产出低下，北欧先民为了生存和追求财富便出海冒险，正如史诗中所说：“大海是他们的后院，战船便是他们的长靴”。在公元八至十一世纪的三百多年时间里，他们横行于波罗的海和大西洋海面上，以“北欧海盗”闻名于世。
公元九至十三世纪，在北欧各地民间传唱的诗体歌谣，在冰岛由佚名行吟诗人记录成文便是《埃达》。它记载叙述海盗和海盗生活，诗中出现的神祇无不是海盗形象。

用古英语写就的古老长诗，被誉为古英语文学的奠基之作，讲述斯堪的纳维亚英雄贝奥武甫的英勇事迹。
该译本为古英语文学专家陈才宇根据当代《贝奥武甫》研究专家约翰•波特的修订版翻译而成，并参考“企鹅丛书”中的现代英语本和“诺顿文学选集”中的散文译文两种版本，很大程度上还原了史诗每行两顿的齐整韵律。
史诗《贝奥武甫》早在第六七世纪就以口头形式流传于日耳曼民族聚居的北欧沿海。全诗共3182行，是英国古代一首长叙事诗，约占现存盎格鲁—撒克逊诗歌总量的十分之一。
丹麦国王赫罗斯加兴建了一座宏伟的宴乐厅，遭到魔怪格兰道尔的袭击。那魔怪为所欲为，连续为害达十二年之久。消息传到高特人耳里。高特武士贝奥武甫率十四勇士前往救援。经过激烈的搏斗，力大无穷的贝奥武甫扯断了魔怪的一只胳膊。垂死的魔怪逃回自己的洞穴。第二天晚上又有一个魔怪前来骚扰宴乐厅，此魔乃格兰道尔之母，是为他的儿子报仇来的。贝奥武甫与她在水潭下的洞穴中展开殊死搏斗，最后用魔剑将她杀死。
贝奥武甫凯旋回国。不久，国王海格拉克父子先后死于非命，贝奥武甫继承王位。他成功地统治高特国达五十年之久。就在壮士暮年，国内出了一条毒龙。该毒龙因自己守护的财宝被盗，开始向高特人进行报复。它口吐烈焰，毁灭一切。为了拯救自己的国家和人民，贝奥武甫毅然进入龙窟。在一位名叫威格拉夫的年轻武士的援助下，毒龙被除，但老英雄也因受伤过重而献出了生命。

《伊利亚特》是经世不朽的英雄史诗，西方文化的奠基之作，集古希腊口述文学之大成，生动描绘为荣誉与尊严而战的特洛伊战争及古希腊社会的全景。

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弗兰克·鲍姆（1856-1919），美国著名作家，“美国童话之父”。《绿野仙踪》是他的代表作。
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有一只100万年也不死的猫，其实它死了100万次，又活了100万次。是一只漂亮的虎皮花猫。有100万个人宠爱过它，有100万个人在它死的时候哭过，可是它连一次也没有哭过。
猫曾经是国王的猫。猫讨厌国王，国王总是发动战争，还把猫用一个漂亮的篮子装起来，带到战场上。有一天，猫被一只冷箭射死了。国王捧着猫哭了起来，仗也不打了，回到了王宫，把它埋在了院子里。
猫曾经是水手的猫。猫讨厌大海，水手带它走遍了全世界的大海和全世界的码头。有一天，猫从船上掉了下来淹死了。水手用网子把猫捞了上来，抱着它大哭起来，把它埋到了一个遥远的港口的树下。
猫还曾经是一个魔术师的猫、曾经是一个小偷的猫、曾经是一个孤零零的老太太的猫、曾经是一个小女孩的猫，它被锯死过、被狗咬死过、老死过，还被背孩子的带子勒死过，不过，它已经不在乎死亡了。
后来，猫就谁的猫也不是了。它成了一只野猫。它头一次变成了自己的猫。它最喜欢自己了，漂亮的虎皮花猫终于变成了漂亮的野猫。母猫们都想嫁给他，有的给它大鱼，有给它上等的老鼠，它说：“我可死过一百万次呢！”它比谁都喜欢自己。
只有一只猫连看也不看它一眼，一只美丽的白猫。它走过去说：“我可死过一百万次呢！”“是吗？”白猫只说了这么一声。它有点生气了，因为它太喜欢自己了。第二天、第三天，它都走到白猫的身边，说：“你还一次也没活完吧？”“是吗？”白猫只说了这么一声。有一天，它在白猫的面前翻了三个跟头，说：“我呀，曾经是马戏团的猫呢。”“是吗？”白猫只说了这么一声。“我呀，我死过100万次……”说到一半的时候，它问白猫，“我可以呆在你身边吗？”“行呀。”白猫说。就这样，它一直呆在了花猫的身边。
白猫生了好多可爱的小猫。它再也不说“我呀，我死过100万次……”了。它比喜欢自己，还要喜欢白猫和小猫们。
小猫们很快就长大了，走掉了。它满足地说：“它们都成了出色的野猫啦。”“是啊。”白猫说，嗓子眼儿里发出了温柔的“咕噜咕噜”声。白猫已经成了一个老奶奶了，它对白猫更温柔了，它想和白猫永远地活下去。
有一天，白猫在它身边静静地不动了。它哭了起来，从夜里哭到早上，又从早上哭到夜里，它哭了有100万次。一天中午，它的哭声停止了。它在白猫的身边静静地不动了。
猫再也没有起死回生过。