Tahmima Anam

She felt the urge to tell him more, to explain about the abortions she had done after the war, and that she hadn__ realised until later, much later, that she had racked up a debt she was still struggling to repay. How could he know _ he was just a soldier, he had killed as a matter of principle, but the war babies, the children of rape, had been left to junior doctors, the volunteers in ragged tents on the outskirts of town.