Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was…

Khaled Hosseini
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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 (2004). The Kite Runner, p.41, Penguin
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