All 50 Uses of
Kabul
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- He was the one who told her in the summer of 1973, when Mariam was fourteen, that King Zahir Shah, who had ruled from Kabul for forty years, had been overthrown in a bloodless coup.†
p. 23..3
- He was prime minister in Kabul when you were born.†
p. 23..5
- There are rumors that the socialists in Kabul helped him take power.†
p. 23..6
- He's a Pashtun, from Kandahar originally, but he lives in Kabul, in the Deh-Mazang district, in a two-story house that he owns.†
p. 46..8
- But not some kind of ordinary street-side moochi, no, no. He has his own shop, and he is one of the most sought-after shoemakers in Kabul He makes them for diplomats, members of the presidential family-that class of people.†
p. 47..1
- It did not escape Mariam that no mention was made of her half sisters Saideh or Naheed, both her own age, both students in the Mehri School in Herat, both with plans to enroll in Kabul University.†
p. 47..6
- And Kabul is a beautiful and exciting city.†
p. 48..3
- Mariam pictured herself in Kabul, a big, strange, crowded city that, Jalil had once told her, was some six hundred and fifty kilometers to the east of Herat.†
p. 48..8
- She pictured herself living there, in Kabul, at the other end of that unimaginable distance, living in a stranger's house where she would have to concede to his moods and his issued demands.†
p. 49..0
- Rasheed is here, in Herat; he has come all the way from Kabul.†
p. 49..4
- The nikka will be tomorrow morning, and then there is a bus leaving for Kabul at noon.†
p. 49..5
- I understand that Rasheed agha has tickets for the bus to Kabul that leaves shortly.†
p. 52..5
- Jalil was busy telling her that Kabul was so beautiful, the Moghul emperor Babur had asked that he be buried there.†
p. 54..6
- Next, Mariam knew, he'd go on about Kabul's gardens, and its shops, its trees, and its air, and, before long, she would be on the bus and he would walk alongside it, waving cheerfully, unscathed, spared.†
p. 54..7
- "I'll visit you," he muttered "I'll come to Kabul and see you.†
p. 55..3
- How do you like Kabul?†
p. 67..8
- Around Kabul?†
p. 70..0
- Of course Kabul.†
p. 70..1
- Mostly, they live in the richer parts of Kabul.†
p. 70..6
- "Which is your favorite?" he asked Mariam hesitated, pointed to a Volga, and Rasheed laughed Kabul was far more crowded than the little that Mariam had seen of Herat.†
p. 73..7
- It was a narrow, crowded bazaar in a neighborhood that Rasheed said was one of Kabul's wealthier ones.†
p. 74..1
- The women in this part of Kabul were a different breed from the women in the poorer neighborhoods-like the one where she and Rasheed lived, where so many of the women covered fully.†
p. 75..2
- She noticed a drowsy hush overtaking Kabul Traffic became languid, scant, even quiet.†
p. 78..3
- Kabul was eerily silent, quilted in white, tendrils of smoke snaking up here and there.†
p. 87..6
- Mariam thought of her six-hundred-and-fifty-kilometer bus trip with Rasheed, from Herat in the west, near the border with Iran, to Kabul in the east.†
p. 88..8
- Two days later, there was a large demonstration in Kabul.†
p. 97..2
- They listened in on the radio as some ten thousand people poured into the streets and marched up and down Kabul's government district.†
p. 98..0
- Kabul Radio, the ministries of Communication and the Interior, and the Foreign Ministry building had also been captured.†
p. 101..2
- Kabul was in the hands of the people now, he said proudly.†
p. 101..3
- Days later, when the communists began the summary executions of those connected with Daoud Khan's regime, when rumors began floating about Kabul of eyes gouged and genitals electrocuted in the Pol-e-Charkhi Prison, Mariam would hear of the slaughter that had taken place at the Presidential Palace.†
p. 101..5
- Kabul, Spring 1987†
p. 107..0
- It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila The valley Mammy referred to was the Panjshir, the Farsi-speaking Tajik region one hundred kilometers northeast of Kabul.†
p. 108..8
- Both Mammy and Babi, who were first cousins, had been born and raised in Panjshir; they had moved to Kabul back in 1960 as hopeful, bright-eyed newlyweds when Babi had been admitted to Kabul University.†
p. 108..9
- Both Mammy and Babi, who were first cousins, had been born and raised in Panjshir; they had moved to Kabul back in 1960 as hopeful, bright-eyed newlyweds when Babi had been admitted to Kabul University.†
p. 108..9
- He knew the difference between a stalactite and a stalagmite, and could tell you that the distance between the earth and the sun was the same as going from Kabul to Ghazni one and a half million times.†
p. 109..5
- Though Babi worked at Silo, Kabul's gigantic bread factory, where he labored amid the heat and the humming machinery stoking the massive ovens and mill grains all day, he was a university-educated man.†
p. 114..4
- She'd been two years old when Ahmad and Noor had left Kabul for Panjshir up north, to join Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud's forces and fight the jihad Laila hardly remembered anything at all about them.†
p. 121..3
- Almost two-thirds of the students at Kabul University were women now, Babi said, women who were studying law, medicine, engineering.†
p. 135..4
- By "out there," he didn't mean Kabul, which had always been relatively liberal and progressive.†
p. 135..8
- Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government-No, Babi meant the tribal areas, especially the Pashtun regions in the south or in the east near the Pakistani border, where women were rarely seen on the streets and only then in burqa and accompanied by men.†
p. 135..8
- He was going to transform Kabul with his designs.†
p. 142..6
- I want to see the day the Soviets go home disgraced, the day the Mujahideen come to Kabul in victory.†
p. 144..6
- Not in Kabul.†
p. 146..4
- Kabul was largely at peace.†
p. 146..4
- Back in Kabul, if not for the occasional bursts of gunfire, if not for the Soviet soldiers smoking on the sidewalks and the Soviet jeeps always bumping through the streets, war might as well have been a rumor.†
p. 146..4
- Maybe hang some pictures of Kabul.†
p. 150..9
- But I won't rest until the Mujahideen hold a victory parade right here in Kabul" And, with that, she lay down again and pulled up the blanket.†
p. 153..9
- Beside her, Babi was impassively listening to a man who was arguing that the Soviets might be leaving but that they would send weapons to Najibullah in Kabul.†
p. 155..8
- In Kabul, Najibullah changed tactics and tried to portray himself as a devout Muslim.†
p. 159..3
- You can't be the chief of KHAD one day and the next day pray in a mosque with people whose relatives you tortured and killed" Feeling the noose tightening around Kabul, Najibullah tried to reach a settlement with the Mujahideen but the Mujahideen balked.†
p. 159..4
Definition:
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(Kabul) the capital and largest city of Afghanistan; located in eastern Afghanistan