A Thousand Splendid Suns
"He said that?" "He doesn't have to, Aziza." "Tell me the rest, Mammy. Tell me so I know." And Laila did. "Your father is a good ...
samovar houses. And one day it will hit him, walking along some meandering river, or gazing out at an untracked snowfield, that ...
ne Sunday that September, Laila is putting Zalmai, who has a cold, down for a nap when Tariq bursts into their bungalow. "Di ...
Laila and Tariq work their way in. The TV is tuned to BBC. On the screen is a building, a tower, black smoke billowing from its ...
muted passion, fully clothed beneath the blanket as a precaution against interruptions by the children. They are forever wary of ...
orphaned by a rocket as she was. Laila cannot bring herself to say it. It's hard to rejoice. It seems hypocritical, perverse. Th ...
or Laila, life in Murree is one of comfort and tranquility. The work is not cumbersome, and, on their days off, she and Tari ...
Laila is struck again by how beautiful he is, the perfect curve of his forehead, the slender muscles of his arms, his brooding, ...
agitated Aziza, who still has nightmares, who'd been startled to tears the week before when someone had shot rounds into the sky ...
restaurants pass by. When the bus passes the shrine to Imam Reza, the eighth Shi'a imam, Laila cranes her neck to get a better v ...
"I worry." "I'll be fine," Laila says. "I promise. Take the children to a market. Buy them something." Zalmai begins to cry when ...
wheelbarrows filled with stones. They stop and watch the car pass by. The driver takes a turn, and they pass a cemetery with a w ...
beaded cushions to sit on, and a framed photo of Mecca on the wall They sit by the open window, on either side of an oblong patc ...
The path is rough, winding, and dim, beneath the vegetation and undergrowth. The wind makes the tall grass slam against Laila's ...
floorboards. The rest, she imagines, have been ripped up for burning as firewood. The floor is carpeted now with dry edged leave ...
Laila jo? Laila's eyes snap open. She gasps, and her body pitches forward. She startles the bat, which zips from one end of the ...
whatever Jalil had intended remain a secret. But, in the end, the curiosity proves too strong. She slides in the key. It takes s ...
May 13, 1987 My dear Mariam: I pray that this letter finds you in good health As you know, I came to Kabul a month ago to speak ...
Mariam jo, I dare, I dare allow myself the hope that, after you read this, you will be more charitable to me than I ever was to ...
APRIL 2003 he drought has ended. It snowed at last this past winter, knee-deep, and now it has been raining for days. The Ka ...
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