A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam was upstairs, playing with Mariam," Zalmai said. "And your mother?" "She was...She was downstairs, talking to that ma ...
before it was replaced by something hateful. Rasheed swung the belt again. This time, Laila shielded herself with a forearm and ...
on Rasheed's cheek, blood down his neck, on his shirt. He turned around, all snarling teeth and blazing eyes. They crashed to th ...
the shovel. But in Rasheed's eyes she saw murder for them both. And so Mariam raised the shovel high, raised it as high as she c ...
Laila aila was aware of the face over her, all teeth and tobacco and foreboding eyes. She was dimly aware, too, of Mariam, a ...
A groan came out of her. "Oh," she said, tremulously, barely able to make a voice, "Oh, Mariam." Laila paced, moaning and bangi ...
"There is a way," she said, "and I just have to find it." "We have to leave! We can't stay here," Laila said in a broken, husky ...
"Maybe I can say them with you tonight." "You can't say them like he can." She squeezed his little shoulder. Kissed the nape of ...
buckle. Wincing, she quietly left the bedroom. In Mariam's room, the light was a shade darker than gray, the kind of light Laila ...
"They will. Sooner or later. They're bloodhounds." Mariam's voice was low, cautioning; it made Laila's promises sound fantastica ...
"Kiss Aziza for me," she said. "Tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart. Will you do that for me?" Laila ...
Mariam ack in a kolba, it seemed, after all these years. The Walayat women's prison was a drab, square shaped building in Sh ...
share their food with her. The most avid was Naghma, who was always hugging her elbows and following Mariam everywhere she went. ...
"Do you fully understand what you're saying?" the bony faced Talib to the judge's right, not the tea giver, said. This one was t ...
compassionate. "But I cannot help but be disturbed by the brutality of your action, hamshira I am troubled by what you have done ...
the water she sank Mariam had disjointed dreams that last night. She dreamed of pebbles, eleven of them, arranged vertically. Ja ...
For the first time that day, Mariam cried a little. Thousands of eyes bore down on her. In the crowded bleachers, necks were cr ...
He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day and makes the day overtake the night, ...
PART FOUR ariq has headaches now. Some nights, Laila awakens and finds him on the edge of their bed, rocking, his undershirt ...
enough to know that he was here, to feel the warmth of him next to her, to lie with him, their heads touching, his right hand la ...
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