A Thousand Splendid Suns
Laila aila was glad, when the Taliban went to work, that Babi wasn't around to witness it. It would have crippled him. Men w ...
"They're savages," Laila said. "You think?" he said "Compared to what? The Soviets killed a million people. Do you know how many ...
unnatural thing. And yet she had to wonder, as she lay on the floor, her sweaty hands poised to guide the spoke, if indeed she c ...
Mariam SEPTEMBER 1997 his hospital no longer treats women," the guard barked. He was standing at the top of the stairs, look ...
other. Some were still holding their babies. Some broke from the mass and charged the double doors that led to the treatment roo ...
on which women moaned and twisted tended to by fully covered nurses. Two of the women were in the act of delivering. There were ...
"What's going on?" Laila moaned. "You can buy the medicine yourself, but " "Write the name," Mariam said. "You write it down and ...
Laila FALL 1999 t was Mariam's idea to dig the hole. One morning, she pointed to a patch of soil behind the toolshed. "We ca ...
clutching her ear. Her stomach turned when she thought of that afternoon, lying on the floor with the spoke of a bicycle wheel b ...
and already thickening into a starless, chilly night He set it down on the living room table. He said he'd bought it on the blac ...
"Besides," he said, "you'd be surprised how much they can bring in." Laila said no again. They were in the living room. Mariam a ...
beatings, lashings of soles and palms. "Gently," Mariam said now, her knees over the edge. They lowered the TV into the hole by ...
Mariam n the summer of 2000, the drought reached its third and worst year. In Helmand, Zabol, Kandahar, villages turned into ...
survived the fire, but his store did not. The fire took the adjacent fabric store as well, a secondhand clothing store, a small ...
"I swear you're going to make me kill you, Laila," he said, panting. Then he stormed out of the house. When the money ran out, ...
Mariam had a view of the Polytechnic Institute, and, beyond that, the old Khair khana district and the road to Mazar. To the sou ...
hours, waiting for her, now and then calling her name, just as she had once called his name outside his house. Mariam had parted ...
"There's a groundskeeper here. I think he's lived here all of his life." "Yes, ask him, please." "Call back tomorrow." Mariam sa ...
"I'm sorry to have bothered you," Mariam said, weeping soundlessly into the phone. She saw Jalil waving to her, skipping from st ...
Laila n a paper bag, Aziza packed these things: her flowered shirt and her lone pair of socks, her mismatched wool gloves, a ...
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