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“This two-stick pattern is called harami, which is a Japanese word meaning "pregnant.”
“Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami”
A Thousand Splendid Suns
“She did not know what this word harami�bastard�meant.”
“She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance.”
“She did not know what this word harami - bastard - meant Nor was she old enough to appreciate the injustice, to see that it is the creators of the harami who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born.”
A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Instead, Nana grabbed Mariam by the wrists, pulled her close, and, through gritted teeth, said, You are a clumsy little harami.”
“Mariam did surmise, by the way Nana said the word, that it was an ugly, loathsome thing to be a harami, like an insect, like the scurrying cockroaches Nana was always cursing and sweeping out of the kolba.”
“Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.”
“Nor was she old enough to appreciate the injustice, to see that it is the creators of the harami who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born.”
“A new life, a life in which she would find the blessings that Nana had said a harami like her would never see.”
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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