A Thousand Splendid Suns
Laila f all earthly pleasures, Laila's favorite was lying next to Aziza, her baby's face so close that she could watch her b ...
Every week, since Aziza's birth, she pried his wallet open when he was asleep or in the outhouse and took a single bill. Some we ...
with slimy, gray juice and sliced off its head. "It was either your daughter or the moths." "Where did you learn to clean fish l ...
They had a second cup, and when Laila asked her if she wanted a third Mariam said she did. As gunfire cracked in the hills, they ...
Mariam rom that night on, Mariam and Laila did their chores together. They sat in the kitchen and rolled dough, chopped gree ...
Defense and the Presidential Palace. From either side of the Kabul River, they released rounds of artillery at each other. The s ...
One day that winter, Laila asked to braid Mariam's hair. Mariam sat still and watched Laila's slim fingers in the mirror tighten ...
Laila s daylight steadily bleached darkness from the sky that spring morning of 1994 , Laila became certain that Rasheed kne ...
At the Lahore Gate bus station, near Pol Mahmood Khan in East Kabul, a row of buses sat idling along the curbside. Men in turban ...
"Yes," he said, squinting. "I wonder if you can help us. Can you do us a favor?" He passed the boy to his wife. He and Laila ste ...
sparks of euphoria, and when a stray dog with yellow eyes limped by, Laila leaned forward and pet its back. A few minutes before ...
hair, and eyebrows that met. He stared at Laila, bouncing a pencil by the eraser end on the desk. "We know," he began, clearing ...
word in the face of all that the Mujahideen factions had done the murders, the lootings, the rapes, the tortures, the executions ...
full speed, in the tender place between the lower tip of the breastbone and the belly button. She realized she had dropped Aziza ...
"Aishee," Aziza mewled."Aishee." "Soon." Laila kissed her daughter, aiming for the forehead, finding the crown of her head inste ...
cracks between her fingers, she saw a big, blurry silhouette standing in a rectangle of light. The silhouette moved. Now there w ...
Mariam SEPTEMBER 1996 wo and a half years later, Mariam awoke on the morning of September 27 to the sounds of shouting and w ...
They "went our that day, the four of them, Rasheed leading them from one bus to the next, to greet their new world, their new l ...
The following day, Kabul was overrun by trucks. In Khair khana, in Shar-e-Nau, in Karteh Parwan, in Wazir Akbar Khan and Taiman ...
Rasheed turned off the radio. They were sitting on the living room floor, eating dinner less than a week after they'd seen Najib ...
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