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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 13-14
13.On the bus ride home from the doctor, the strangest thing was happening to Mariam. Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin-roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. It was...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 11-12
11.Mariam had never before worn a burqa. Rasheed had to help her put it on. The padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her skull, and it was strange seeing the world through a mesh screen. She practiced walking around her room in it and kept stepping on the...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 9-10
9.It was early evening the following day by the time they arrived at Rasheed’s house.I“We’re in Deh-Mazang,” he said. They were outside, on the sidewalk. He had her suitcase in one hand and was unlocking the wooden front gate with the other. “In the south and...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 7-8
7.They sat across from her, Jalil and his wives, at a long, dark brown table. Between them, in the center of the table, was a crystal vase of fresh marigolds and a sweating pitcher of water. The red-haired woman who had introduced herself as Niloufar’s mother,...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 5-6
5.I know what I want,” Mariam said to Jalil. It was the spring of 1974, the year Mariam turned fifteen. The three of them were sitting outside the kolba, in a patch of shade thrown by the willows, on folding chairs arranged in a triangle.“For my birthday...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 3-4
3.One of Mariam’s earliest memories was the sound of a wheelbarrow’s squeaky iron wheels bouncing over rocks. The wheelbarrow came once a month, filled with rice, flour, tea, sugar, cooking oil, soap, toothpaste. It was pushed by two of Mariam’s half brothers,...