A Thousand Splendid Suns
ariam had never before worn a burqa. Rasheed had to help her put it on. The padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her sku ...
"I don't see any chickens," Mariam said. "That's the one thing you can't find on Chicken Street." Rasheed laughed The street was ...
buildings, behind desks of their own, where they typed and smoked and made important telephone calls to important people. These ...
Rasheed buried his face into her pillow, and Mariam stared, wide eyed, at the ceiling above his shoulder, shivering, lips pursed ...
amadan came in the fall that year, 1974. For the first time in her life, Mariam saw how the sighting of the new crescent moo ...
Fariba must have recognized her, walking in burqa beside Rasheed. She waved, and called out, "Eidmubarak!" From inside the burqa ...
She took in the heavy, green drapes, the pairs of polished shoes lined up neatly along the wall, the closet door, where the gray ...
Rasheed's magazine or what Jalil had done? And what entitled her anyway, a villager, aharami, to pass judgment? Mariam tried the ...
n the bus ride home from the doctor, the strangest thing was happening to Mariam. Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colo ...
Rasheed lifted a long, narrow board. As he began to saw it in half, he said the stairs worried him. "Something will have to be d ...
the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose ... She laid down her prayer rug and did namaz. When ...
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. ...
he grief kept surprising Mariam. All it took to unleash it was her thinking of the unfinished crib in the toolshed or the su ...
But it did no good, all this fault laying, all these harangues of accusations bouncing in her head. It was kojr, sacrilege, to t ...
"No. Of course not." "Then stop pestering me!" "I'm sorry. Bebakhsh, Rasheed. I'm sorry." He crushed out his cigarette and lit a ...
APRIL 1978 n April 17, 1978, the year Mariam turned nineteen, a man named Mir Akbar Khyber was found murdered Two days later ...
"I ask because " "Chupko. Shut up." Mariam did. It wasn't easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ri ...
north and east. Their deafening shrieks hurt her ears. In the distance, loud booms resonated and sudden plumes of smoke rose to ...
aristocracy, nepotism, and inequality is over, fellow hamwaians. We have ended decades of tyranny. Power is now in the hands of ...
"What's the matter?" he mewled, mimicking her. "What's the matter is that you've done it again." "But I boiled it five minutes m ...
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