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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 49-50
49.One Sunday that September, Laila is putting Zalmai, who has a cold, down for a nap when Tariq bursts into their bungalow.“Did you hear?” he says, panting a little. “They killed him. Ahmad Shah Massoud. He’s dead.”“What?”From the doorway, Tariq tells her wha...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 47-48
47.MariamBack in a kolba, it seemed, after all these years.The Walayat women’s prison was a drab, square-shaped building in Shar-e-Nau near Chicken Street. It sat in the center of a larger complex that housed male inmates. A padlocked door separated Mariam and...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 45-46
45.MariamI was upstairs, playing with Mariam,” Zalmai said.“And your mother?”“She was . . . She was downstairs, talking to that man.”“I see,” said Rasheed. “Teamwork.”Mariam watched his face relax, loosen. She watched the folds clear from his brow. Suspic...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 43-44
43.MariamUpstairs, in Mariam’s room, Zalmai was wound up. He bounced his new rubber basketball around for a while, on the floor, against the walls. Mariam asked him not to, but he knew that she had no authority to exert over him and so he went on bouncing his...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 41-42
41.MariamIn the summer of 2000, the drought reached its third and worst year.In Helmand, Zabol, Kandahar, villages turned into herds of nomadic communities, always moving, searching for water and green pastures for their livestock. When they found neither, whe...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 39-40
39.MariamSEPTEMBER 1997This hospital no longer treats women,” the guard barked. He was standing at the top of the stairs, looking down icily on the crowd gathered in front of Malalai Hospital.A loud groan rose from the crowd.“But this is a women’s hospital!” a...