A Thousand Splendid Suns
need to speak to your parents, dokhiar jan" he said when Laila opened the door. He was a stocky man, with a sharp, weather r ...
"Keep him away from me." That was the only time Mammy said anything all morning. Babi ended up sitting alone on a folding chair ...
he ailments that would hound Mammy for the rest of her days began. Chest pains and headaches, joint aches and night sweats, ...
Mammy rolled onto her back. Laila shifted, rested her head on Mammy's chest. "Some days," Mammy said in a hoarse voice, "I liste ...
Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever was ...
he driver pulled his taxi over to let pass another long convoy of Soviet jeeps and armored vehicles. Tariq leaned across the ...
HALF AN HOUR LATER, THE DRIVER PULLED OVER. "Come on, you two," Babi said. "Come outside and have a look." They got out of the ...
"We're standing atop its head," he said, wiping his brow with a handkerchief "There's a niche over here where we can look out." ...
"Be careful," said Babi. "I will, Kakajan," Tariq's voice echoed back. Laila watched a trio of men far below, talking near a cow ...
Babi said they would hold birthday parties at the restaurant, engagement ceremonies, New Year's get-togethers. It would turn int ...
when he had gone to Ghazni. She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling way ...
JANUARY 1989 ne cold, overcast day in January 1989, three months before Laila turned eleven, she, her parents, and Hasina we ...
"He's their puppet. They'll keep the war going through him, you can bet on that." Someone in the next aisle voiced his agreement ...
whooshing in and out of her nose, she wondered, waiting for a subtle faltering, a revealing irregularity, that would betray her ...
APRIL 1992 hree years passed. In that time, Tariq's father had a series of strokes. They left him with a clumsy left hand an ...
faction, who had a reputation for shifting allegiances. The intense, surly Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hezb-e-Islami fact ...
"How is Tariq?" "His father's been ill," Laila said "How old is he now anyway?" "I don't know. Sixties, I guess." "I meant Tariq ...
not very convincing. "He's like a brother to me," she added, misguidedly. And she knew, even before a cloud passed over Mammy's ...
"Good!" Mammy said. "That's resolved, then. Now, where is Hakim? Where, oh where, is that sweet little husband of mine?" It was ...
Giti was beside Laila now, chopping cucumbers, with a dreamy, far off look on her face. Mammy was nearby, in her brilliant summe ...
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