The Story Of What Has Happened To

Of All The Hardships A Person Had To Face, None Was More Punishing Than The Simple Act Of Waiting.

I Foresaw My Life Unfolding As An Interminable Stretch Of Nothingness And So I Spent My Years On Tinos Floundering, Feeling Like A Stand-in For Myself, A Proxy, As Though My Real Self Resided Elsewhere, Waiting To Unite Someday With This Dimmer, More Hollow Self. I Felt Marooned. An Exile In My Own Home

There Was So Much Goodness In My Life. So Much Happiness. I Wondered Whether I Deserved Any Of It.

I Think The Scale Of The Conflict [in Afghanistan] Has Dramatically Changed In 2003. You're Now Facing A Much More Motivated, Well-supported Enemy. I Don't See Any Quick End To This Thing.

But If You Have A Book That Needs Urgent Reading,' She Said, 'then Hakim Is Your Man.