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refugee
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
(Edited)

Anyway, what I gathered was that your friend was in a lorry full of refugees, twenty-three of them, all headed for Peshawar.
p. 206.9

refugees = people fleeing their homeland
Laila pictured herself in a refugee camp, a stark field with thousands of sheets of plastic strung to makeshift poles flapping in the cold, stinging wind.
p. 219.1

refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
Already burdened with nearly two million Afghan refugees, Pakistan had closed its borders to Afghans in January of that year.
p. 260.3 *

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Most of them had been raised-some even born-in refugee camps along the Pakistani border, and in Pakistani madrasas, where they were schooled in Shari'a by mullahs.
p. 273.9

refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
They had stayed awhile at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Tariq said, tapping ash into a saucer.
p. 334.2
There was a leafless tree he climbed every day, where he straddled a branch and watched the refugees lying about in the sun, their sores and stumps in plain view.
p. 334.9

refugees = people who fled their homeland
All around the refugee town, the wind made the tents flap.
p. 335.2

refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
Shortly before they cross the border into Herat, they pass an Afghan refugee camp.
p. 393.2
Many of the drawings depict tanks running over huts, men brandishing AK-47s, refugee camp tents, scenes of jihad.
p. 412.6

Definitions:

(1) (refugee)
someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)