Across
- 2. A shade of rustic orange used to describe the colour of the hills and mountains of Afghanistan several times in the book.
- 4. The way someone might describe my list of words, referencing the length.
- 7. The French word for borough.
- 8. The state in which Nabi described the house he inherited, once belonging to Suleiman Wahdati, after decades of war and terror in Kabul.
- 10. What Markos initially thought of Thalia’s answer to his offer of performing facial reconstruction on her after becoming a plastic surgeon.
- 12. An adjective the journalist Etienne Boustouler used to describe the rebellious early works of Nila Wahdati, poems she wrote as a teenager.
- 14. A blue metamorphic gemstone found in abundance in Afghanistan, and in excess in the Wahdati house.
Down
- 1. A word that can be divided in the middle into two distinguishable parts; the latin numeral prefix for 5, and an adjective that means necessary, crucial, or imperative.
- 3. A large scale emigration or departure, and the name of the second book in the Old Testament.
- 5. The type of firearm of russian origin that Adel’s compound guards Kabir and Azmaray proudly carried.
- 6. A j-word with the rare occurrence of being pronounced with the h-sound in english, that originated from the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808.
- 8. A quality used to describe the eyes of a boy that Pari liked.
- 9. An arabic expression used commonly by muslims and arab-christians to mean “If God wills it”.
- 11. A recurring word in the novel meaning a subtle hint, that a dyslexic could understandably mistake for the words “imitation”, or “intimidation”.
- 13. An illness that Parwana likely had as a baby that gave her a reputation of being difficult, characterized by excessive crying in an otherwise healthy infant.