Paiyu cha tea

以580封信開始實現一個承諾：《三杯茶》

書名：三杯茶
作者：葛瑞格．摩頓森、大衛．奧利佛．瑞林
譯者：黃玉華
出版：馬可孛羅 2008 / 05

此 書描寫一位落難登山客，在巴基斯坦山區的一個偏僻小村、被善良的村民照顧與感動的故事；但故事的高潮在於主角給這小村的承諾：一定會回來為他們的 孩子辦學校。其實這是作者之一、美國中亞協會會長摩頓森的真實體驗，在書中也呈現了他實現承諾的過程；包含他如何在打字機上一字一句的築起這件美事，又如 何在回到巴基斯坦時因帶入的物資而受到覬覦及阻礙。

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(Just the aroma of Paiyu cha tea “is stinkier than the most frightening cheese
the French ever invented.”)

In the introduction to the book, Relin says, “The accounts I’d heard about Mortenson’s adventures building schools for girls in the remote mountain regions of Pakistan sounded too dramatic to believe before I left home.

The story I found, with ibex hunters in the high valleys of the Karakoram, in nomad settlements at the wild edge of Afghanistan, around conference tables with Pakistan’s military elite, and over endless cups of paiyu cha in tea-rooms so smoky I had to squint to see my notebook, was even more remarkable than I’d imagined.”