who is alyona in a thousand splendid suns?
Chapter 44: Laila He has a goat called Alyona—named for the heroine of a movie he and Laila once saw together—and brings Laila some goat's milk cheese. Tariq tells her the story of what happened since they parted. He and his family stayed in a refugee camp near the border, along with sixty thousand other Afghans.