A Thousand Splendid Suns
And, more than once, How long do I have to stay? They stopped two blocks from the squat, barracks style building. "Zalmai and I ...
"I'll come and see you," Laila said. "All the time. Look at me, Aziza. I'll come and see you. I'm your mother. If it kills me, I ...
old joke, that you can't stretch a leg in Herat without poking a poet in the rear." Next to Laila, Aziza snorted. Zaman feigned ...
fed and clothed. That much I promise you." Laila nodded. "All right?" He was smiling companionably. "But don't cry, hamshira Don ...
breath. Maybe tomorrow I'll feel better, or the day after. We'll see." He never bothered to feign a single raspy breath. Often, ...
had knitting needles and balls of yarn ready, she said, in case of a Taliban inspection. "We put the books away and pretend to k ...
"You're getting so smart," Mariam said "So much smarter than your dumb khala" Aziza's face glowed, broadened. "You're not dumb, ...
Are you eating? Sleeping all right? Eating. Sleeping too. Yes. We had lamb last night Maybe it was last week. When Aziza spoke l ...
Aziza chose a gum ball machine the same coin could be inserted to get candy, then retrieved from the flap door coin return below ...
Mariam pstairs, in Mariam's room, Zalmai was wound up. He bounced his new rubber basketball around for a while, on the floor ...
Laila ariq said that one of the men who shared his cell had a cousin who'd been publicly flogged once for painting flamingos ...
Laila thought of Tariq's mother, her unhurried manners, the clever smiles, the dull purple wig. And his father, with his squinty ...
Laila meant this less as a joke than as a surreptitious entry into another line of talk, such as who else was there with him wor ...
There was a leafless tree he climbed every day, where he straddled a branch and watched the refugees lying about in the sun, the ...
one or maybe two months' apartment rent." The shopkeeper gave him a bus ticket, Tariq said, and the address of a street corner n ...
Tariq wouldn't say much about his years in prison save that he'd learned to speak Urdu there. When Laila asked, he gave an impat ...
prison has a man like Salim, Tariq said. There was always someone who was cunning and connected, who worked the system and found ...
against the wall. "I thought you were dead," Laila said. "I know. You told me." Laila's voice broke. She had to clear her throat ...
"So is she. You'll see." "I'll count the minutes." Almost ten years had passed since they had last seen each other. Laila's mind ...
stay." Tariq nodded. "He works from noon to eight. Come back tomorrow afternoon. I'll take you to Aziza." "I'm not afraid of him ...
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