Foreword | p. ix | |
The Proposal | p. 3 | |
Burning Books | p. 9 | |
Crime and Punishment | p. 23 | |
Suicide and Song | p. 37 | |
The Business Trip | p. 41 | |
Do You Want to Make Me Sad? | p. 67 | |
No Admission to Heaven | p. 80 | |
Billowing, Fluttering, Winding | p. 84 | |
A Third-Rate Wedding | p. 94 | |
The Matriarch | p. 106 | |
Temptations | p. 122 | |
The Call from Ali | p. 131 | |
The Smell of Dust | p. 163 | |
An Attempt | p. 181 | |
Can God Die? | p. 194 | |
The Dreary Room | p. 204 | |
The Carpenter | p. 214 | |
My Mother Osama | p. 245 | |
A Broken Heart | p. 267 | |
Epilogue | p. 285 |