![]() ![]() One day, against Jalil’s wishes, Mariam descends the hill into Herat for the very first time in order to see him. Jalil comes to visit Mariam every week, and though Nana tries to convince Mariam that Jalil is embarrassed by her and refuses to consider her a true member of his family, to Mariam, he can do no wrong. ![]() Mariam is taught to recite verses from the Koran by Mullah Faizullah, whom she looks up to and admires. We learn that Mariam is the illegitimate child or harami (“bastard”) of Nana and Jalil, a wealthy cinema owner in Herat. Part I of A Thousand Splendid Suns begins in the early 1970s, when Mariam is a teenager living with her mother, Nana, in a kolba or small hut outside of the city of Herat. ![]()
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