Five

Spring 2003

The nurse, whose name is Amra Ademovic, had warned Idris and Timur.

She had pulled them

aside and said, “If you show reaction, even little, she going to be upset, and

I kick you out.”

They are standing at the end of a long, poorly lit hallway in the men’s wing

of Wazir Akbar Khan

Hospital. Amra said the only relative the girl had left—or the only one who

visited—was her

uncle, and if she’d been placed in the women’s wing he would not be

permitted to visit her.