“I could not take my eyes off her, as though she were one of the women of Paradise who neither menstruate nor suffer from mucus.”
― The Book Smuggler: A Novel
― The Book Smuggler: A Novel
“My sheikh warned me against the books of philosophers, because their authors are not Muslims and so it would not be a sin to kill them—and this is exactly what made me creep out in the evenings after his discussion circle to the paper markets or to the khan’s library, to seek out the books my sheikh had cursed!”
― The Book Smuggler: A Novel
― The Book Smuggler: A Novel
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