A Thousand Splendid Suns
And as Mariam watched Jalil shake these strangers' hands, as she saw him cross his palms on his chest and nod to their wives, sh ...
"No." Niloufar dropped her legs and pulled her blouse back down. "I could teach you," she said, pushing hair from her flushed br ...
"You don't need excuses. Not you." "You're kind to say that, Mariam jo." He passed her his Koran. As he'd taught her, she kissed ...
hey sat across from her, Jalil and his wives, at a long, dark brown table. Between them, in the center of the table, was a c ...
learn Pashto." Mariam's chest was tightening. The room was reeling up and down, the ground shifting beneath her feet. "He's a sh ...
"True that it would be preferable that you marry a local, a Tajik, but Rasheed is healthy, and interested in you. He has a home ...
his mouth, but all that came forth was a single, pained groan. "Say something," Mariam said. Then Jalil did, in a thin, threadba ...
n the morning, Mariam was given a long sleeved, dark green dress to wear over white cotton trousers. Afsoon gave her a green ...
He asked the question two more times. When Mariam didn't answer, he asked it once more, this time more forcefully Mariam could f ...
"You are now husband and wife," the mullah said."Tabreek. Congratulations." Rasheed waited in the multicolored bus. Mariam coul ...
Faizullah." She turned and walked around to the side of the bus. She could hear him following her. When she reached the hydrauli ...
t was early evening the following day by the time they arrived at Rasheed's house. "We're in Deh Mazang," he said. They were ...
suffocated Mariam. Pangs of longing bore into her, for Nana, for Mullah Faizullah, for her old life. Then she was crying. "What' ...
The room that was to be Mariam's was much smaller than the room she'd stayed in at Jalil's house. It had a bed, an old, gray bro ...
he first few days, Mariam hardly left her room. She was awakened every dawn for prayer by the distant cry of azan, after whi ...
He told her about his day. A pair of loafers he had custom made for the deputy foreign minister who, Rasheed said, bought shoes ...
of potatoes, left them too to soak. She searched for flour, found it in the back of one of the cabinets behind a row of dirty sp ...
"The one from Herat. You're so young! Mariam jan, isn't it? My name is Fariba. I live on your street, five houses to your left, ...
around and ran back in the other direction, head down, tripping once and scraping her knee badly, then up again and running, bol ...
compliment The day's earlier unpleasantness receded a bit. "Tomorrow is Friday," Rasheed said. "What do you say I show you aroun ...
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