A thousand splendid suns

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    The main events

  • Eighteenth event

    Tariq and Laila have a third daughter: Mariam
  • Seventeenth event

    Laila goes to Mariam's father, Jail and she finds a letter in which Jail repents of his actions
  • Sixteenth event

    Tariq and Laila run away.
  • Fifteenth event

    Mariam is sentenced to death.
  • Fourteenth event

    Rashid beats Laila, but Mariam during a violence on her friend she kills Rashid with a shovel
  • Thirteenth event

    Laila meets Tariq
  • Twelfth event

    Rashid decides that Aziza must stay in an orphanage
  • Eleventh event

    Mariam and Laila want escape but it is a failure
  • Tenth event

    Laila has two children Aziza and Zalmai
  • Ninth event

    Laila think thath Tariq is dead and she marries Rashid
  • Eighth event

    Lalia and her family want leave Afghanistan, but a bomb hits his house. Her father and her mother die.
  • Seventh event

    Tariq enlists in the army
  • Sixth event

    Laila feels in love with Tariq
  • Fifth event

    Mariam is pregnant, but then she aborts
  • Fourth event

    Rashid commits violence on Mariam
  • Third event

    Mariam marries Rashid
  • Second event

    On the fifteenth birthday of Mariam, the girl goes to her father's house but he refuses her. When she comes at home she finds her mother dead.
  • First event

    Mariam at age of five years old heard for the first time the word "harami"