A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS: DOWNLOADABLE STUDY GUIDE

CHAPTER 26

Summary

It is by far the hottest day of the year in Kabul, but the electricity is out and the fans don’t work. Laila lies on the living room couch trying not to move in the heat while upstairs she can hear her parents talking and talking like they have everyday now ever since the bullet struck the gate. Inside Laila is a battle that is also waging, one of guilt on one part, along with shame, and on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful given the knowledge that they might not see each other again. Now she lies lost in her memories of that moment when they had made love, trying to remember exactly what Tariq had said at one point. It has only been two weeks since he has left, but already time is blunting the edges of those sharp memories. With the passing of time, she will slowly tire of this exercise; there will come day when she will no longer bewail his loss, when the details with slip from her memory, when she will not miss him as she does now like the phantom pain of an...........

Notes

This entire chapter is ironic. Just as Babi convinces Mammy to leave Kabul and Lalila believes it’s possible to find ..........

PART III

CHAPTER 27: Mariam

Summary

Slowly, Laila awakens, but when Rasheed and Mariam ask her if she knows who they are, she tells them that she can’t hear from one ear. At first, she sleeps most of the time even though she has awakened from her unconscious state. While she sleeping, Mariam notes how she cries out strange names, weeps, grows agitated to the point of having to be held down. And she retches and retches, throwing up.........

Notes

This chapter is basically an explanation of how Laila slowly begins to heal physically from her wounds after the missile..........

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