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. (Khaled Hosseini)

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.

Khaled Hosseini

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