这3章，故事朝着不同的方向发展。接受审判时，Mariam镇定自若，坦诚自己的罪行。面对法官的质问，她只说了一句 "But, if I hadn't, he would have killed her. He was strangling her." 生命最后的十天里，Mariam在牢狱里，注意到的是孩子在院子里的追逐和嬉闹，回想自己的童年，爸爸Jalil陪伴着她。我想Mariam这辈子最快乐的时光就是童年了。走向刑场，Mariam无视周围一切，明白这是让她获得自由的唯一方法。
She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings.
Vocabulary
1. disjointed: (especially of words or ideas) not well connected or well ordered（尤指词语或想法）不连贯的，没有条理的，杂乱无章的
Mariam had disjoined dreams that last night.
Eg: The script was disjointed and hard to follow.
2. prickle：If part of your body prickles, it feels as if a lot of sharp points are touching it because you are frightened or excited.（身体部位）感到刺痛
She wakes from them coated in sweat, her eyes prickling with tears.
Eg: My eyes prickled with tears.
这个用法好特别，第一次见。I felt my eyes prickle.
3. rankle: to make someone annoyed or angry for a long time 使人耿耿于怀；令人怀恨；使人怨愤不已
But it rankles Laila, what Tariq is saying.
Eg: The unkind way in which his girlfriend left him still rankled with him long after.
Summary
Mariam is arrested and sent to prison, where she becomes a kind of celebrity among her cellmates for her defense against her brutal husband. In a less than fifteen-minute trial, Mariam frankly admits her guilt and is sentenced to death. Taken to the execution ground, Mariam pictures thousands of eyes bearing down on her, but she blinds herself to them all and keeps self-possessed and calm. What she feels is not regret but a sensation of abundant peace she has longs for.
As they have hoped, Tariq, Laila and their children finally come to Murree. Tariq and Laila marry there and seem to begin with their new life as husband and wife. Even though Mariam enjoys the serene life here, She still has to deal with some hardship. Tariq has headache and she has to lie to Zalmai, who always asks her where his dad is. Besides, Aziza often wakes up shrieking from her nightmares and Laila herself always dreams of being back in Kabul and of Mariam, making Laila shaken and devastating every time.
The September terrorist attack allows America to launch war towards the Taliban in Afghanistan. Tariq believes the war may end the Taliban's control over Kabul and tries to persuade Laila to go back home. But Laila can not face a war-scarred Kabul and her endless suffering the war brought to her.
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