“and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi”
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
“Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.”
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Khaled Hosseini
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The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
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