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 br
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 bou
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 ne
有句话说,钱是人的胆。那你觉不觉得,英语也是人在这个世界上行走所需要的胆?记得小时候,在一本画册的背面,看到了26个图像化的字母。那会刚刚上小学,连普通话都说不好。有一次,我指着26个字母问妈妈那是什么,妈妈说是英语。“什么是英语呀?”“英语是全世界的普通话。”妈妈是个只读过3年小学的人,完全不懂英语,但她的这一句“英语是全世界的普通话”,我至今都记得门儿清。如今长大了,努力工作了,开始赚钱了,想去更远的地方了…却发现不知何时英语就这样被落下了:学英语十年,词汇量数千,但偶遇问路的外
We all have heard of the fairy tale of the frog prince, but before you find the very frog which can be transformed into a prince,you have to kiss a lot of other frogs. Only after you have given them a kiss will you know whether they can be turned int
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 ho