And The Mountains Echoed — Vocabulary
Khaled Hosseini
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While I accompanied Mr. Wandati on his daily morning walk, Nila slept in, often until noon or even later.6 more

They're accompanying the piece with a photo.6 more

His jeans were stiff with dirt, and they were too short besides. By contrast, his T-shirt hung almost to his knees.1 more

She wears a bright yellow coat, buttoned to the throat, which contrasts with the dark gray overcast sky above.1 more

I had become his de facto interpreter.1 more

Mr. Wandati did have, for instance, a habit of correcting my manner of speech with an air of superiority that could be interpreted, perhaps not wrongly, as arrogance.1 more

The case will be used next week for Peer Review, a monthly video conference watched by all the facilities during which mistakes by physicians, who remain anonymous, are used to illustrate learning points.1 more

The way her hand bent at its slender wrist reminded me of an illustration I had once seen in a glossy book of poems of a long-lashed woman with flowing dark hair lying with her lover in a garden, offering him a cup of wine with her pale delicate fingers.1 more

As it approached the village from the direction of the mountains, the earth shook with each of its footfalls.4 more

It was the boy, the one with the old man who had tried to approach Baba jan at the school's opening ceremony.4 more

In her worst moments, when she cannot help being swallowed up by a torrent of self-loathing, Parwana thinks that perhaps the cord knew best.†5 more

Masooma listlessly sweeps her hand.†4 more

It was as though it—God forgive me for this blasphemy—had descended down on me from Heaven itself, the garden of the righteous, as the book says, where rivers flow beneath, and perpetual are the fruits and the shade therein.†3 more

School was really the back room of the village mosque where, in addition to teaching Koran recitation, Mullah Shekib had taught every child in the village to read and write, to memorize poetry.24 more

The flat-screen TV fastened to the wall; the PC in the corner; the unfinished game of Sudoku on the nightstand, the page marked by a pair of reading glasses; the TV remote; the vial of artificial tears; a tube of steroid cream; a tube of denture glue; a small bottle of pills; and, on the floor, an oyster-colored pair of fuzzy slippers.1 more

She found herself speaking in an artificially sophisticated, ridiculous tone that was nothing like the way she spoke normally.1 more

Am I that transparent?1 more

All my life, I have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent.1 more

They declared jihad on him, the mullahs, the tribal chiefs.†5 more

Unnecessary because Isabelle quickly latched onto the instrument of her own accord and unfeasible because the cello made Pari's hands ache.†1 more